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*NIX: Pipelight has a new website - plus new version available
40hz:
This is good news!
If you don't know what Pipelight is, here's the description from the project website:
Pipelight is a wrapper for using Windows plugins in Linux browsers and therefore giving you the possibility to access services which are otherwise not available for Linux users. Typical examples of such services are Netflix and Amazon Instant, which both use the proprietary browser plugin Silverlight. These services cannot normally be used on Linux since this plugin is only available for Windows, and the only open source alternative (Moonlight) is lacking support for DRM.
Pipelight helps you access these services by using the original Silverlight plugin directly in your browser, all while giving you a better hardware acceleration and performance than a virtual machine. Besides Silverlight, you can also use a variety of other plugins that are supported by Pipelight. Take a look at the installation page for a complete list.
Pipelight uses a patched wine version to provide a windows environment to the plugins, but you do not need to worry about this as Pipelight will take care of installing, configuring and updating all supported plugins. From the perspective of the browser these plugins will behave just like any other normal Linux plugin after you have enabled them.
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More information and installation instructions are available at the website.
Tuxman:
"*NIX" for "Linux-only" is quite optimistic.
40hz:
"*NIX" for "Linux-only" is quite optimistic.
-Tuxman (July 29, 2014, 07:02 AM)
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Just an FYI: "*NIX" stands for any variant OS that is Unix-based or Unix-like. So that would mean Linux or Unix since the asterisk is the wildcard character. (Note: If you go to the website you'll see installation instructions for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. Isn't that wonderful? :mrgreen:)
I'm also not sure what you mean by "optimistic" in this context.
8)
Tuxman:
Just an FYI: "*NIX" stands for any variant OS that is Unix-based or Unix-like. -40hz (July 29, 2014, 07:22 AM)
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Pipelight is a wrapper for using Windows plugins in Linux browsers and therefore giving you the possibility to access services which are otherwise not available for Linux users. Typical examples of such services are Netflix and Amazon Instant, which both use the proprietary browser plugin Silverlight. These services cannot normally be used on Linux since this plugin is only available for Windows, and the only open source alternative (Moonlight) is lacking support for DRM.
Pipelight helps you access these services by using the original Silverlight plugin directly in your browser, all while giving you a better hardware acceleration and performance than a virtual machine. Besides Silverlight, you can also use a variety of other plugins that are supported by Pipelight. Take a look at the installation page for a complete list.
Pipelight uses a patched wine version to provide a windows environment to the plugins, but you do not need to worry about this as Pipelight will take care of installing, configuring and updating all supported plugins. From the perspective of the browser these plugins will behave just like any other normal Linux plugin after you have enabled them.
-- Ironically, the *BSD (well, only two of them?!) support - as well as the Linux "support" - works via Wine - thus, via an additional Windows simulation layer. :wallbash:
No, this isn't "*NIX software". This is "Windows software which also runs on systems which can pretend to be Windows".
40hz:
No, this isn't "*NIX software". This is "Windows software which also runs on systems which can pretend to be Windows".
-Tuxman (July 29, 2014, 07:32 AM)
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And your point, assuming there is one, would be? :)
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