![]() ![]() Let me quote verbatim from the project page, because I can not phrase it better: This modified Wine ( wine-pipelight) is combined with a new browser plugin ( pipelight) that embeds Silverlight directly in any Linux browser supporting the Netscape Plugin API (yes… the API which Google is planning to drop from its Chrome browser in 2014… not playing nice here, Google!). ![]() Hoover who created a set of Wine patches to get Playready DRM protected content working inside Wine. Project Pipelight utilizes the efforts made by Erich E. What is Pipelight and how does it render these SilverLight pages, and Netflix videos, and more, in your browser? You may definitely want to install Pipelight in order to view Netflix content on your Linux computer! Having a Netflix subscription forced you to boot a Windows computer but that is now history. Not just dutch Slackware users with children in secondary school will profit. This article will show you how to install and configure Pipelight on Slackware Linux without effort. It took a while to get it all sorted out and make sense of the way in which the various pieces of software interact, but despite a busy work schedule I managed to pull it off in the end. The most promising (in fact as it turned out, the only) solution appeared to be Pipelight. In my article, I mentioned that I was looking at ways to render SilverLight based websites in a Linux browser. A disastrous move induced by an arrogant company, which of course leaves Linux desktop users out in the cold. You may have read my earlier rant about dutch schools migrating (or forced to migrate) to a Microsoft SilverLight based learning management software called Magister. That is the exact title of an article which appeared on last august. ![]()
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