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Unlike NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games, DIRECTV customers who have the NFL Sunday Ticket SuperFan viewing package can now watch live football games on computers running Linux.

Using a combination of Adobe Air and the open source Flex framework, DIRECTV will stream the Sunday showdowns and also deliver game highlights, statistics, and real-time scores via a desktop app or Web browser.

We certainly do love our media. We upload our photos to public sharing Web sites, download videos to watch on our laptops, and stream radio stations through our browsers. That's a lot of media to manage -- and leave it to the open source community to come up with great ways to help us do just that.

We certainly do love our media. We upload our photos to public sharing Web sites, download videos to watch on our laptops, and stream radio stations through our browsers. That's a lot of media to manage -- and leave it to the open source community to come up with great ways to help us do just that.