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In July of last year, at the end of the Open Source Conference (OSCON) emerged the rumor which brought some hope to the Linux community.
At that time, two engineers from Netflix they confessed that they were working to toast native support for Linux and that more news was expected next year. Finally, it was all a big sham. The other day we had the final sentence. |
"There are no plans to support Netflix on Linux," said Joris Evers, Director of Corporate Communications at Netflix.
Maybe the Netflix engineers were wrong or maybe the project was terminated, the truth is that we will never know what happened or if there was ever an intention for Netflix to be compatible with Linux, but let's hope that the people of Netflix someday you will see the value of investing in free software.
The alternatives? Apparently the only way to get Netflix to work on Linux is through a virtual machine. Yes, it is not ideal, but it is the only thing that works. Wine? Siverlight does not work. Moonlight? It does not support DRM. Android emulator running the Netflix app? Yuck! XBMC? Requires Silverlight.
Source: OMG! ubuntu
They should open it and we do the work, no fuck.
netflix ball of assholes, they discriminate against us for using linux, I prefer to continue downloading movies from the internet before leaving ubuntu.
"Long live Linux"
There are already two of us, I was about to subscribe to Netflix but if it does not run in Fodora or Ubuntu it is useless, no way to continue downloading movies from the internet
Oh yes, yes: Netflix doesn't work on Linux and that's why I'm going to become a cyber-thief. Blockbuster is still alive, people; also the cinema. I find it a bit shameful that because a movie service no longer works for you on Linux, you already find a justification to "download movies by Torrent" or watch them illegally.
I better leave it for the peace. In case you want, firms are gathering to make Netflix work on Linux: http://www.petitiononline.com/Linflix/petition.html
What an idiot you read!
Blockbuster costs how much? $ 5 to $ 10 per movie, I imagine. The same for the cinema.
Did you see that Netflix was around $ 8?
But, most importantly: Did you see that those who complained about Netflix not working on GNU / Linux did it because they want to watch movies ON GNU / Linux? If it was also without DRM, and if it was even legal, what better!
Ah, no, but you had to go out and call a cyber-thief, a scoundrel, and an illegal person who subscribed to Netflix willing to PAY for the service. Morons like you come out to comment on that only when they don't understand the value of freedom.
Yes, I'm going to keep downloading movies on Torrent whenever I want to. And when I feel like spending a fortune to the movies and I can, I will. And I hope, Michelle, that what I decide to do and how "immoral" I decide to behave will be worth to you, because after this comment, what you can say will be worth to me mothers.
Free platforms are going to find this problem for quite some time. Those who want to "sell" something to us are not very happy that it is done through "free" services. I imagine that you see the paradox that supposes them….
One more reason why many of us stop acquiring original products or services, it shows how "much" we matter to the big entertainment producers
… And so they want to fight piracy. I was willing to hire the service.
Neither netflix nor voddler. What a remedy, we will have to continue using bittorrent to watch movies on linux
that good, what better to avoid that garbage
You should take a look at sundaytv.com.
It looks much better than netflix, it is cheaper and it works perfectly with linux.
Netflix that goes to the M…., Just as they ignore us we should ignore them.
I am a subscriber of Netflix in Mexico and the truth is that even though it is not bad, it is not a great thing either ... I will cancel Netflix as soon as it expires.
Thanks for the data!
Today there is an article on the subject.
A hug! Paul.
On November 19, 2012 04:55 am, Disqus wrote:
Hello friends,
I tell you that I found a solution on the web to be able to enjoy
of NETFLIX on my ubuntu without virtualizing windows, just write
in the terminal this pair of commands and that's it. I hope it helps you because
it worked for me.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa: ehoover / compholio
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop
After installation, go to the top left of your
screen and open your Unity dash and search for Netflix and run the app. This
It will create everything you need for your first run. after logging in
In NETFLIX you select a video to watch, Silverlight will ask if
enable DRM content. Please enable it. The Netflix video is
will play.
Netflix app will start in full screen mode. You can leave the
app completely by pressing ALT + F4. you can also press F11
to exit full screen mode.
Regards!!
You have to understand that it is not a matter of importance but of numbers, of earnings. The fact is that I never quite understood why there is no greater support for applications under Linux, maybe because there is no business support behind it? But we have RHEL, SLES and SLED, Ubuntu, etc. Maybe because there is no common platform or version for all distributions? I don't know, the thing is, I have no idea what Netflix is!