Actually, NetShow for Linux *was* released as beta, lo, many moons back.
(Un?)fortunately, that's one MS product that I guess will never see the
light of day. Microsoft used to even have a link to it that stuck around
for a good year after the files themselves were removed. Yup -- freshmeat
still shows the link, but with the comment as follows:
"GONE
The UNIX version seems to have vanished.
There is only NT, Win95, Win 3.1, Mac and a promise of a UNIX one RSN."
Then there's also another comment pointing to
http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/apps/netshow_linux
which is, I guess, the same one you have already, "borrowed" from the MS
beta site.
-Ken
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Niall Kavanagh wrote:
> > http://soft.iol.it/iol/netshow/linux/
> >
> > I have no idea who made this, if the source is available, or even if it
> > actually works. It's Netshow for UNIX (solaris, irix, and sunos versions
> > also available), and yes, it says it plays ASF files.
>
> I copied this file to a testbed machine we were about to wipe anyways, and
> discovered the following:
>
> 1. It does claim to be "Microsoft NetShow for Unix"
> 2. It is NetShow V2.0, dated 1997
> 3. For every ASF file I could find, it played nothing. Closer inspection
> revealed that it said it did not support any of the CODECs present.
>
> Overall, I wouldn't bother. Not only does it not work, I can't rule out the
> possibility that it is a very well constructed trojan. Microsoft's website
> makes no mention of a NetShow for Linux anywhere that I could find.
>
>
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