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No problem on Fedora
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get it to work on Ubuntu as well, though I think it's not enabled by default (unless the web pages I'm looking at are outdated).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 (subscriber, #3190) [Link]
Flash on 32-bit Slackware has never worked reliably for me. I don't find I miss much...