On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:00:36 -0800 (PST) BehaviorKelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Synaptic does offer a re-install. As usual, it appears to being going > well as it re-installs itself.... until I actually check to see if > Youtube works in Firefox. > > This should really be working out of the box. > > The Adobe Flash program is not showing up anywhere under the Firefox > 'preferences' or 'tools' either. > > Flash is enabled. Could there be any other flash type program that > is hogging the spot in which Adobe should be? > > I thought that the suggestion to use the "software sources" was going > to do it, but even though I enabled everything there... nothing. Do you have the flash-plugin-nonfree installed? Why do you assume "this should really be working out of the box"? Adobe produces proprietary software and the restrictions this places on use is a reduction in our freedoms - that's why is is called "non-free" in the repositories. The philosophy of Linux is based on a community of users and contributors that have the freedom to examine the code of a program, change it where appropriate, distribute the changed code, and the sharing of files to that end. One or more of those freedoms may be beyond any one user because they do not have the technical expertise, but they still have the freedom to do it: restrictive licences (like that of Adobe) reduce those freedoms, so I do not understand why you assume that proprietary software should be installed "out of the box". It is true that Adobe now produce a Linux version of flasd, but they have not yet (AFAIK) yet distributed it under a free (as in freedom) licence, so you should know the legal restrictions placed upon its use before you use it - or you could be breaking the law: the same istrue of Adobe's Acrobat reader and Photoshop Suite. Aside from that, you could ask YouTube to support free software formats so that you could easily obtain access to them through Linux. For more information on this: http://www.fsf.org -- Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
