On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Tracy Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Did it come with flashplayer pre-installed? If so I would like to know how > they > pulled that off. Special agreement with Adobe for licensing? > It would be pretty easy for Dell to ship their Linux laptops with Flash. Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix comes with Adobe Flash, OpenJDK Java, and VMware View pre-installed. Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu) comes with Flash and other useful proprietary software. Google Chrome for Linux comes with Flash built-in. Canonical's partner apt repository has Flash. Red Hat has Flash in their RHEL repository. Windows and Mac OS X don't include Adobe Flash by default (or Java for that matter). Linux is not unique in regards to not shipping with Flash, if anything it's in a better position because Flash is included with freely downloadable distributions, and the update mechanism is built into the OS. As Linux experts we need to do a better job of steering new Linux users to distributions that are desktop friendly like Mint or Ubuntu Business Desktop. And Canonical really should enable the partner repository and prompt users to install Flash on first boot. -Anton
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