You may have some success running the real Adobe Flash under wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=23
You could also install XP inside Virtual Box, running inside Ubuntu - saves having to mess about with partitions etc. Cheers, Kris On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My son's just started college, and one of the programs he'll be using is > Macromedia (Adobe) flash. > > Neither of us want to waste disk space on putting XP back, so can anyone > recommend an alternative for him to use at home? Ideally he'd like to be > able to work on his files both at college and at home, but is there an > open source program that will create/edit files that Flash will accept? > I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 > > > Some I've seen in Synaptic: > Blender > Epix1 > GIMP-gap > Stopmotion > > Whether these are what he needs I don't know - I know nothing about > Flash! I've been reading up on the Adobe site, but it's all greek to > me. :( > > Don't know if he'll survive this course - it's only day one, and he's > already roared with laughter when his tutors XP crashed, and suggested > he switched to Linux. :) > > TIA > Dianne > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
