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Run Netflix On OpenSUSE

Posted by timothy on from the pulling-pixels dept.

sfcrazy writes "Ironically while Netflix's infrastructure runs on Linux and Open Source technologies, the service doesn't support Linux, the platform. Netflix is available for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Chrome OS but not for desktop Linux. One of the reasons could be that Netflix still uses Microsoft's Silverlight which is not supported on Linux. However Linux users have managed to get it to work on their distros. Now openSUSE users can also run Netflix using Pipelight."

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  1. Works like a charm on Ubuntu two by jonnyj · · Score: 5, Informative

    Instructions are here: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html

    I've been using it for several week with Netflix on Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10. It also works with Eurosport Player.

  2. Re:Don't forget FreeBSD by CrankyFool · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I work at Netflix, on the Cloud and Platform Engineering side, responsible for doing some stuff in the cloud. We use both Linux and FreeBSD -- Our cloud infrastructure runs on Linux, so all the API calls, license calls, logging in etc is hitting Linux servers. And once you start downloading a movie, you're downloading it from one of our caches, which runs on FreeBSD.