[Mageia-discuss] Flash videos

Wed Jun 13 11:23:57 CEST 2012

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+On 13/06/12 09:42, andre999 wrote:
+> TJ a écrit :
+>> On 06/12/2012 02:16 PM, TJ wrote:
+>>> Adobe has announced that Flashplayer for Linux will not be
+>>> supported beyond version 11.2. There will be backported
+>>> security updates for a while, but that's it.
+>>> 
+>>> I've read that Linux has two open-source alternatives, Gnash
+>>> and Lightspark. Any opinions on which is best? And what about
+>>> installing both?
+>>> 
+>>> TJ
+>>> 
+>>> 
+>> Oops. Should have looked before asking that last question. I see 
+>> Lightspark is a dependency for Gnash.
+>> 
+>> But do they make a functional alternative to Adobe's offering...
+>> 
+>> TJ
+>> 
+> I tried Gnash a couple of years ago and wasn't impressed.  But now
+> I block flash by default (and rarely unblock) so I couldn't say. 
+> When I tried it before, it could be installed the same time as
+> Flash. The latest version is in core.  So why not try it and see ?
+> 
+> As I understand it, Adobe is planning to phase out support for all
+> flash in favour of something based on HTML5, but I could be
+> mistaken.
+> 
+The current version is, according to Adobe, the last one that will be
+released for Linux.
+
+Anne
+
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