On 12/16/2015 10:12 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 16/12/15 16:03, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> On 12/16/2015 09:55 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>> On 2015-12-16 14:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>> There is a person on the Cubieboard forum trying to get >>>> Netflix working with ubuntu with not much success (with >>>> ubuntu). So I thought I would search the Centos list about >>>> Netflix support, and see that Johnny Hughes had it working back >>>> in March on x64 with: >>>> >>>> nss-3.16.2.3-5.el7.i686 nss-3.16.2.3-5.el7.x86_64 >>>> google-chrome-stable-41.0.2272.101-1.x86_64 (from google) >>>> >>>> the question is can it work on armv7? I am assuming we will >>>> (have) nss, but what about google-chrome? >>> You might get Chromium to build, but it brings all of the >>> dependencies with it (hence why it isn't included in any distro, >>> it massively violates distro packaging policies). >>> >>> The key issue is most likely going to be that due to various DRM >>> requirements Netflix needs flash, which is bundled with x86 >>> google-chrome. This will not exist for anything other than x86, >>> so unless netflix provides html5 video, it's not going to >>> happen. >> OK. No TV viewing in my house, so no personal need. Just a 'nice' >> thing to better push the armv7 platfrom into homes. >> >> thanks >> > Also worth adding that we're only targeting cli environment for the > first release. There are quite a bunch of X packages, but untested > (and I know that Gnome wasn't built correctly). > If some people want to use X , we'll probably have to work on that > later, but I think that most of the centos 7 userland users for > armv7hl will be using it for small appliances, and not using X at all I can live with that. If you do go down the X path, I have moved to Xfce from Gnome. It works nicely on F23-arm.