FreeBSD Desktop – Part 27 – Configuration – Netflix Signal Telegram
In this article you will learn how to use Netflix (also other streaming services that require Widevine DRM) and Signal/Telegram on FreeBSD desktop.
You may want to check other articles in the FreeBSD Desktop series on the FreeBSD Desktop – Global Page where you will find links to all episodes of the series along with table of contents for each episode’s contents.
While Netflix serves their content using FreeBSD servers the Netflix streaming service itself is not available on the FreeBSD platform because Widevine DRM does not support browsers on FreeBSD system.
We will use one of the more known FreeBSD features – the Linux Compatibility Layer. When FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE was introduced the LINUX_COMPAT support was greatly improved. To the point where you can swap the default CentOS 7 based layer into the newer and more suited for desktop – the Ubuntu based layer.
Thank to author of NomadBSD system – mrclksr – we can now install needed Chrome/Brave/Vivaldi browser with automatic install and setup of that Ubuntu layer under /compat/ubuntu path. Its available on the GitHub https://github.com/mrclksr/linux-browser-installer page. First we will clone this repository with git(1) command.
