Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:17:15AM -0600, Jim McConville wrote: >> Subject: Flash Player and BLFS >> >> Is there any information avaialble on the use of Flash Player >> with the supported BLFS software such as KDE and GNOME? >> >> Information relative to the following would be appreciated. >> 1. Policy relative to using Flash Player on LFS derived systems. >> 2. Success/failures in installing, > > 'Policy' is something the BLFS editors have kept out of the book. > Like all binaries, you don't know what it is going to do, so it > might be a risk, but it's your distro. At least it isn't going to > poke about in the kernel internals like proprietary graphics > drivers. > > Works on x86 only (I use it with firefox). I _loathe_ flash sites, > but it's occasionally useful to me so I usually have it installed on > at least one of my systems.
What Ken said. Be aware that it uses OSS for sound, so you'll need to make sure you have that module loaded / built into the kernel. It's pretty much dog slow, but like Ken said, there's just times that you need Flash. > ISTR that one or other of the free (open) alternatives is starting > to make progress, but I can't remember the name of the project or > how much it can do. Maybe it was swfdec. It's gnash. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ Last time I tried it, it wouldn't really even run. Maybe it's improved lately. I wouldn't count on it too much, though. On the evil side, Adobe is working on the new Linux flash player which sounds pretty sweet. (Not as sweet as me having the source, though). http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
