On Mon, July 3, 2006 12:19, Kevin Hinde said:
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> I'm would still be interested to hear Davy's reason for not having Flash
> installed - just for anecdotal evidence
1) Flash for Linux on 32 bit x86 machines ('PCs') lags behind Windows
versions, so sometimes there's a 2 version lag. at the moment Flash for
Linux is version 7.something, whereas windows has 8.5
2) There is no Flash for Linux on PPC ('Macs'), at all - so anyone running
this OS can't use Flash, at all.
3) Getting Flash working on Linux on 64bit machines is temperamental at
best. Ditto for some of the BSDs
4) Flash in not Free software (as in it's not available for
redistribution/ modification/ code analysis), so some people won't/ can't
install it at all, whether it's available for their computer or not.
HTH
George
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