No problem on Fedora [LWN.net]

No problem on Fedora

Posted Apr 14, 2008 17:48 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
Parent article: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

Adobe's Flash plugin works fine on Fedora x86-64 Linux (even with their 64-bit Firefox executable), thanks to 32-bit runtime support and nspluginwrapper.

It should be possible to get it to work on Ubuntu as well, though I think it's not enabled by default (unless the web pages I'm looking at are outdated).

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No problem on Fedora

Posted Apr 15, 2008 5:51 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Flash on 64 bit Gutsy didn't work at all for me.  Flash on 64 bit Hardy has been working fine
so far.

I totally agree with the lesson in the story.  I tried moving my brother to Linux back in 2004
and discovered it was probably 6 years too early.  "Terminal?"  He was absolutely horrified
and still teases me about it.

At this rate, I think Linux (Ubuntu or Fedora) might be ready to try again in 2010.  Even if
flash, mpg and wmv work right out of the box, I'm going to have a really hard time convincing
him to try it again...

No problem on Fedora

Posted Apr 17, 2008 16:42 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

Flash on 32-bit Slackware has never worked reliably for me. I don't find I miss much...