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heavyset_go on Oct 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop

Widevine support is enabled in Firefox on 32 and 64-bit x86 platforms.

binfmt_misc can enable Flash support.

cmiles74 on Oct 23, 2019 [–]

I'm pretty sure they are using the binaries provided by Google. I don't think they can compile for another platform, like PPC.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

heavyset_go on Oct 23, 2019 | [–]

That's my point, Widevine is only available for certain platforms. You can abuse binfmt_misc for other incompatible software, though.

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