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Maybe not on the desktop, but there are plenty of people using it as a media center OS. Enough that someone went to the trouble of rolling a custom Wine distrib
by gnoway 14y ago
Maybe not on the desktop, but there are plenty of people using it as a media center OS. Enough that someone went to the trouble of rolling a custom Wine distribution to get Silverlight + Firefox accessing Netflix.
At this point it's just kind of silly to exclude Linux, especially when all the heavy lifting is already done; Chrome OS _is_ Linux, and I believe the Roku devices are Linux-based as well.
The reasons Netflix might have to exclude Linux are not unique to Netflix, but somehow Amazon and Hulu - both Flash-based, of course - manage to support these customers.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoI think in the short term Chrome will be a prereq to watch Netflix (fallback to Silverlight in other browsers). In the long term DRM requirements are going to change and hardware-level DRM is going to be mandatory. Speculation.