Blue Swirl wrote:AJ wrote:Oh? I always I thought GNU provides some important parts of the POSIX interface. Guess there's some pretty basic stuff I should know that I don't. What else do people use instead?
No no, I think you're right. I talked myself into a corner for the sake of conversation. GNU/Linux is definitely the right term, probably even with the more proprietary distros like Linux Mint.
AJ wrote:I did a little reading and apparently there are OS' using Linux but not any of GNU.
Ed_Flanders wrote:Good news: Netflix on Linux You still have to jump through a few hoops but it's nothing compared to having to use Wine and praying. I tried it today and it works perfectly. - Make sure you have the latest version of libnss3 - Download and install the latest Chrome. I suppose Chromium also works but I didn't try it. - Enable EME in chrome://flags - Download the User-Agent Switcher Extension * Add a new (fake) user agent using the extension and input the following Name: Netflix Linux String: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2114.2 Safari/537.36 Group: (is filled in automatically) Append?: Select ‘Replace’ Indicator Flag: IE Click "add" * Add netflix.com to the permanent spoof list Source: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/netflix-linux-html5-support-plugins
Thankfully you don't need any of that anymore. A clean Chrome install in a reasonably up-to-date Linux system should do the trick.hunk wrote:Pipelight also works. Mono should too but haven't tried that.
hunk wrote:OS memory (ram) footprint varies with different distros. For older hw try lubuntu. There are other light distros but you'll have to Google for the most relevant.
LtPidgeon wrote:Did anyone ever use BeOS "back in the day"?
Scotswahey wrote:There just seem to be too many variations of Linux. Nobody is going to six this Wayland thing because oh guess what it's already factioned off into like 4 different development groups. There are too many variations of the same OS and sub variations of the variations.
Blue Swirl wrote:I had a friend of a friend who was mad for it.LtPidgeon wrote:Did anyone ever use BeOS "back in the day"?
LtPidgeon wrote:I went through a phase of trying to get as many OS on one PC as possible. I really ripped the arse out of Partition Magic and Boot Magic back then.
Ed_Flanders wrote:Mint XFCE x64 is the one I've been using for a year and I totally recommend it.
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