Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-20 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi,
Unless there a usable alternative present, flash would remain dominant
on all platforms. so people stop cribbing.


Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-19 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09/19/2010 02:18 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote:
 ++ the general consensus was to leave 64-bit flash in... when adobe
 cancelled it for a bit... I don't know why it ever got removed. I've
 had problems recently with flash and I suspect it's due to running a
 32-bit version.
 

The 64bit version of the plugin was removed because it had a (serious?)
security flaw and it was decided to provide the 32bit version which
contained a fix even though it can be a little problematic (some users
report more problems) and messy.

Regarding crashes, here I didn't notice any increase in problems after
the change ... it's still crappy flash with sub-par linux support.

I would like to see a 64bit version of flash on the repos but I can't
blame the devs/maintainers if they have some doubts about changing
things yet again, it seems adobe can't make up its mind about 64bit support.

-- 
Mauro Santos


Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-19 Thread Linas
 Christian Larsson wrote:
 I know it doesn't adress the problem with flash, but are a side note. Most
 of us only use flash in order to view flash videos, an most of the time we
 also would like to download them. For this ytmp (
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40172) is a great substitute and
 let you view the videos in your own movieplayer or download them.

youtube is not such a big problem nowadays, since you can use the html5
beta and many players can play them diractly.
OTOH other sites using their own system (metacafe, some newspapers...) are
inaccessible.

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Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-18 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:
 Like I've written on the arch-multilib mailing list I'd prefer to
 having flashplugin in [multilib] renamed to lib32-flashplugin or
 bin32-flashplugin and the new 64 bit version added to [extra] as
 flashplugin at least if the new 64 bit version is stable and secure
 enough.

++ the general consensus was to leave 64-bit flash in... when adobe
cancelled it for a bit... I don't know why it ever got removed. I've
had problems recently with flash and I suspect it's due to running a
32-bit version.

-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.com


Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-17 Thread Christian Larsson
I know it doesn't adress the problem with flash, but are a side note. Most
of us only use flash in order to view flash videos, an most of the time we
also would like to download them. For this ytmp (
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40172) is a great substitute and
let you view the videos in your own movieplayer or download them.

2010/9/17 Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com

 On Thu 16 Sep 2010 16:53 +0200, Linus Eklöf wrote:
  What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash
 might
  not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free
  software.

 What's really sad is that so many sites rely on flash in the first place.




Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-17 Thread Robert Howard
Sadly, I won't be able to ditch adobe until gnash or lightspark supports
flex fully. This day may never come.
 I know it doesn't adress the problem with flash, but are a side note. Most
 of us only use flash in order to view flash videos, an most of the time we
 also would like to download them. For this ytmp (
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40172) is a great substitute and
 let you view the videos in your own movieplayer or download them.

 2010/9/17 Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com

 On Thu 16 Sep 2010 16:53 +0200, Linus Eklöf wrote:
  What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash
 might
  not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free
  software.

 What's really sad is that so many sites rely on flash in the first place.




Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-17 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rafael Beraldo
 rafaelluisbera...@gmail.com wrote:
 You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word:
 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux

 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-LinuxI
 hope this comes to the repositories soon…it is kind of sad, though, 'cause a
 great deal of people (including me) might use [multilib] just because of
 Flash.

 It is in AUR already. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072.
 As it is only a prerelease, it shouldn't be in the repos, though.

 --
 A: Because it obfuscates the reading.
 Q: Why is top posting so bad?

 ---
 Denis A. Altoe Falqueto
 ---


So I guess its time to remove flashplugin I installed from multilib
and replace it with 'square'??


[arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Rafael Beraldo
You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-LinuxI
hope this comes to the repositories soon…it is kind of sad, though, 'cause a
great deal of people (including me) might use [multilib] just because of
Flash.

-- 
Rafael Beraldo
http://devio.us/~revberaldo/


Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rafael Beraldo
rafaelluisbera...@gmail.com wrote:
 You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word:
 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux

 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-LinuxI
 hope this comes to the repositories soon…it is kind of sad, though, 'cause a
 great deal of people (including me) might use [multilib] just because of
 Flash.

It is in AUR already. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072.
As it is only a prerelease, it shouldn't be in the repos, though.

-- 
A: Because it obfuscates the reading.
Q: Why is top posting so bad?

---
Denis A. Altoe Falqueto
---


Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:14:22AM -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rafael Beraldo
 rafaelluisbera...@gmail.com wrote:
  You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word:
  http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux
 
  http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-LinuxI
  hope this comes to the repositories soon…it is kind of sad, though, 'cause a
  great deal of people (including me) might use [multilib] just because of
  Flash.
 
 It is in AUR already. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072.
 As it is only a prerelease, it shouldn't be in the repos, though.


The former 64-bit flash plugin was never anything but a pre-release.

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Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Linus Eklöf
What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might
not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free
software.

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Rafael Beraldo rafaelluisbera...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word:

 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux

 
 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux
 I
 hope this comes to the repositories soon…it is kind of sad, though, 'cause
 a
 great deal of people (including me) might use [multilib] just because of
 Flash.

 --
 Rafael Beraldo
 http://devio.us/~revberaldo/ http://devio.us/%7Erevberaldo/



Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread jesse jaara
2010/9/16 Linus Eklöf kazchj...@gmail.com

 What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might
 not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free
 software.

 I would use gnash or lightspark, if they could be used together whit adobes
flash
like having some white list for video sites or somesort of analyzer that
will firtsh
go trought the flash show binary  to see if it is 100% supported by
gnash/... and
if it isint then use the adobes version. I think that at the moment what
most users
need flash for are 100% flash only sites and games


Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:19 AM, jesse jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote:

 2010/9/16 Linus Eklöf kazchj...@gmail.com

 What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash.
 Gnash might
 not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free
 software.

 I would use gnash or lightspark, if they could be used together
 whit adobes
 flash
 like having some white list for video sites or somesort of analyzer
 that
 will firtsh
 go trought the flash show binary  to see if it is 100% supported by
 gnash/... and
 if it isint then use the adobes version. I think that at the moment
 what
 most users
 need flash for are 100% flash only sites and games

I have read that lightspark is getting pretty decent, although I have
not tried it myself in awhile.  It supposedly can/will fall back to
gnash for sites that have issues.

I too am looking forward to an adobe free experience, one way or
another, as it's really the only blob left on my systems, and I'm
dissatisfied with their  quality and attitude toward Linux solutions.

  C Anthony [mobile]


Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Rafael Beraldo
On 16 September 2010 11:53, Linus Eklöf kazchj...@gmail.com wrote:

 What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might
 not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free
 software.


Yes, using proprietary software is kind of sad but neither Gnash or
Lightspark are really usable right now...Once in a while I test Lightspark
and I am excited with it. How knows if someday it will replace Adobe's
Flash?

Now, I don't need to justify myself to anyone, however, I totally support
free software both using and showing it off to people that are interested in
it; my post here was just aiming practical aspects of using a computer, if
you understand what I mean. What should one do when a college colleague
sends they a damn doc? Should they answer “hey send me in odt or txt or some
pure format!” -- or should they just use OpenOffice or Google Docs to open
it and not bother people with ideology? Open source isn't something that
tears apart good from bad people.

Anyway, software is becoming more and more open nowadays, that's what I
think, so these “ philosophical issues” are hopefully going to disappear.

I'm sorry if I went off-topic.

-- 
Rafael Beraldo
http://devio.us/~revberaldo/


Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 16 Sep 2010 16:53 +0200, Linus Eklöf wrote:
 What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might
 not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free
 software.

What's really sad is that so many sites rely on flash in the first place.