Yes you read it just right. Netflix now works with Ubuntu. And no, there’s no official Netflix support for Linux yet. Thanks to hard work done by Erich Hoover and guys at iheartubuntu, Netflix has been made to work under Ubuntu using Wine and there is now a PPA to install the whole hack in [...]
Netflix on Monday released the source code for its Chaos Monkey tool into the open source jungle. Chaos Monkey is a tool the company built in the Amazon Web Services system. Its job is to randomly kill virtual machines and services within Netflix’s architecture. The idea is to test systems in real-world conditions. Chaos Monkey’s [...]
The 5-year-old subscription streaming video service known as “Hulu Plus” has doubled its subscriber numbers in the last seven months to more than 2 million, according to numbers bandied about by the company. Hulu is a joint venture between investors and television operators: Comcast’s NBCUniversal, Fox Entertainment and the Walt Disney Company. Competitors include Netflix [...]
Among other big ticket announcements during recently concluded Ubuntu Developer Summit(UDS) was the news of Ubuntu Unity’s foray into Mobile and TV space. This was an exciting development to everyone in the community and user-contributed design mockups have been pouring in ever since. We had featured a bunch of really interesting Unity Mobile mockups before, [...]
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