[GRLUG] Silverlight (and Netflix) on Linux

[Topher]

On 08/21/2013 09:48 AM, John Wesorick wrote:
> I know there are some people on here with Netflix or are required to
> use Silverlight for whatever reason. I just thought I'd share this
> project that just came out called Pipelight
> <http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silverlight-in-linux-browsers.html>.
> It allows you to use Silverlight on Linux via an interesting mechanism
> where it creates a plugin for your native browser that runs
> Silverlight through a special patched WINE. It is by the same dev as
> Netflix Desktop <http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/>, but is
> much more seamless, and works with all Silverlight applications. One
> of our main vendor's B2B site is built on Silverlight, so we've had to
> use an RDS connection to a Windows server just to access it, but this
> seems to be working so we can access it more or less natively.

Because Arch Linux is awesome I was able to simply install this with my
package manager, and it works great.
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