On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:09:35PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > In Debian amd64 Etch (stable), there is no way to use flashplayer (a > > 32-bit binary plugin that requires a 32-bit browser. To use it, you > > have to set up a 32-bit chroot. It never has to boot, just be a > > complete chroot in which to run the 32-bit browser and its plug-ins. > > The 64-bit kernel can run 32-bit apps if they have 32-bit libraries > > (which they do in the 32-bit chroot). Is there no way to do this in > > OpenBSD for your i386 apps or will the amd64 kernel not run 32-bit apps? > > Not natively, no. > > I've been told it is possible to implement, if you wish to write some > code. Not a whole lot of interest among the developers, however. And > no one else has stepped up to do it. > > OpenBSD is an OPEN SOURCE OS. Seems kinda pointless to run closed source > drivers and apps and and and on an open source system, doesn't it? > > OpenBSD is security oriented, achieved through active auditing and > verification. Strange place to stick a Mystery Binary, don'tcha > think? > > Funny, the Linux people are content to use Mystery Binaries, might > explain why they have so many of them they have to use.
So, there are some web sites that I need to access that use flash. Mostly, online product catalogues. Does this mean that I have to use Debian on my main box to do this since OpenBSD doesn't? Is that more secure? If you take the requirement to view a few flash pages at face value, you're saying that that defeats the whole purpose of OpenBSD and I'm better off just sticking with Debian for the whole thing. Doug.
