Oh, those Linux hackers. Sure, they're constantly endeavoring to put Linux on every device possible, from PDAs to open-source PVRs. But what about building desktop Linux clients for popular consumer devices, like say the Slingbox?Well, since Sling Media has yet to release a SlingPlayer for Linux, Andrew Butkus over at the Sling Community went and hacked together his own method to get SlingPlayer to run on his Acer Aspire notebook running Ubuntu 6.10.
Essentially you need to install Wine to get a layer of Windows compatibility. Then you need to install SlingPlayer and Windows Media Player 9. There's a few other tweaks you need to enter to get the whole thing working, and there's still no guarantee this will all work on your system, but what fun would it be if it worked on the first try?
1. Woot! wine & ubuntu!
Posted at 7:57AM on Dec 30th 2006 by Tux