Hulu, the popular American TV streaming site, today finally launched a native Linux desktop application for their service.
Built on Fedora and Ubuntu 9.04, the app is designed to play nice with Ubuntu from the get go. Its only dependencies are: –
- GTK+ 2.12 or higher
- GLib 2.16 or higher
- LIRC 0.8.2 or higher (required for remote control functionality)
Which all come pre-installed on Ubuntu! Hurrah!
Sadly i have no way to test Hulu as it’s an American-only service at the moment. (It is due to launch in the UK during 2010, though.) So be sure to let me know how it goes in the comments!
Download
Available for both 32bit and 64bit installs, you can grab the user-reidnly .deb packages from the official Hulu labs site @ http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop-linux