[aklug] Re: 64 bit adobe flash

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>
Date: Fri Sep 17 2010 - 13:25:06 AKDT

On Friday 17 September 2010 12:13:20 Tim Gibney wrote:
> I hate flash and wish for HTML 5 to take over. Go Apple.
> Only Windows offers hardware decoding and even MacOSX is better than the
> crappy Linux version of flash. Flash just sucks on Linux in general. Isn't
> there an opensource competitor to flash?

Not yet, probably never for flash. It is a content creation issue using flash. As
long as folks create/encode their content in flash, flash will be required to run
it.

>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
> > found this link on the Debian users list:
> >
> > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
> >
> > I watch to much flash content online :-) I have been using the bigmem
> > kernel,
> > since I didn't like my results of IA32 libs on 64 bit.
> > --
> > Peace,
> >
> > Greg

Flash is a resource hog here, and crashes at least once a day. At least the
latest browsers run flash as a separate process, which you can kill without it
affecting the browser,.. or X.

What is involved in hardware acceleration in Windows and how do we get it in
Linux ?

-- 
Peace,
Greg
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