Njengoba sonke sazi kahle, iMicrosoft yanquma ukwethula uhlaka lwayo I-Silverlight iWindows ne-Mac OS X kuphela, ishiya i-Linux ngaphandle futhi ngaleyo ndlela ikuncishe amandla okusebenzisa Netflix, I-LOVEFilm nezinye izinsizakalo ezifanayo kwizigidi zabasebenzisi abasebenzisa i-penguin distro.
Vele, ngokuhamba kwesikhathi sihlangane neNetflix Desktop futhi inkinga yaxazululwa ngokwengxenye, yize kungenjalo ngokuphelele ngoba kuyisixazululo esibandakanya ukusetshenziswa kwewayini, futhi sesivele sazi ukuthi ukusebenza kwaleli thuluzi akufani futhi kuyahluka ngohlobo lwe isoftware esifuna ukuyisebenzisa. Kepha kukhona enye indlela, eshesha kakhulu nokuncika okumbalwa, futhi ibizwa I-Pipelight.
Kuyiphrojekthi enikezayo Ukusekelwa kweSilverlight kuLinux kulezo ziphequluli ngosizo lweNetscape Plugin API (NPAPI), lapho singabala iFirefox neMidori. Futhi kuGoogle Chrome, yize isikhashana nje kusukela inkampani yaseMountain View isivele imemezele ukuthi izomisa ukunikela ukwesekwa kwayo.
Phakathi kwezinto ezintsha ezalethwa yilokhu inguqulo entsha yePipelight singasho ukwesekwa kwe-Adobe Flash, okuzoba ngezinguqulo ezizayo okuzovumela ukusetshenziswa kwe-DRM. Ngaphezu kwalokho, manje kungenzeka futhi ukuchaza ukufakwa kwe-Pipelight kumsebenzisi ngamunye wohlelo, esikhundleni sokwenza ukufakwa okujwayelekile, nokusebenza kokulingisa ukusheshisa kwe-Hardware kuthuthukisiwe.
Faka i-Pipelight ilula kakhulu futhi kuleli khasi sinencazelo yokukwenza kuma-distros amakhulu (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Fedora noma ukuhlanganisa ikhodi yomthombo).
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