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There's moonlight, which is a Silverlight alternative for linux. I just installed it for Ubuntu. Painless to install. edit: You guys are right. Netflix doe
by jim_h 16y ago
There's moonlight, which is a Silverlight alternative for linux. I just installed it for Ubuntu. Painless to install.
edit: You guys are right. Netflix doesn't work under linux. I just tried it under Ubuntu. No go. It's too bad since Silverlight does use less power and Netflix has impressed me so far.
- drivebyacct2 16y agoMicrosoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components unless it is hardware secured. The only Netflix platforms that Linux works on have PlayReady chips in them basically - Roku, and Boxee literally JUST got Netflix support. Moonlight absolutely doesn't work in Ubuntu. And Silverlight runs like a dog in a VM, even with 2d/3d accel (and turned off since they're not 100% stable) and that's giving my VM 3 cores and 3 GB of my memory, AND it's on a separate hard drive than my host OS. Netflix is completely worthless to Linux users. I welcome competition from Amazon.
- jrockway 16y agoMicrosoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components unless it is hardware secured So you mean to say that the average Windows XP box is "hardware secured"? I think you mean, "Microsoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components to anyone that isn't big enough to hurt its adoption".