On 17/06/13 15:37, John Hupp wrote:
On 6/17/2013 9:30 AM, Yorvyk wrote:
According to those nice people at Adobe the minimum requirements
for running Flash with Linux are:-
2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or
faster processor for netbooks
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 5.6 or later (32 bit and 64 bit),
openSUSE® 11.3 or later (32 bit and 64 bit), or Ubuntu 10.04 or
later (32 bit and 64 bit)
Mozilla Firefox 17 or Google Chrome 5 12MB of RAM; 128MB of
graphics memory
The hardware requirement, from my experience, appears to be
remarkably accurate and maybe something we need to highlight.
Is anybody using Gnash and is it any better in that respect?
"Maybe something we need to highlight."
I agree. I spent a *lot* of time trying to figure out Adobe Flash
performance problems about a year ago when I was first digging into
Lubuntu. Finally I wondered if it could possibly be a hardware
requirement issue and dug up those specs. Though I had forgotten
that the graphics memory requirement is that high. In my case it
seemed that the most sensitive requirements were the processor speed
and the RAM. I would be interested to know how firm the graphics
memory requirement is.
Like all these things I don’t' think it's the absolute minimum, as Flash
'runs' on a machine here with 64MiB discrete graphics memory, 2.4 GHz P4
and 1GiB RAM. It won't do full screen and can be a bit jittery if other
software is running. Similar experience on a laptop with 1GiB RAM, 128
MiB shared graphics memory and a Celeron M 540 1.86GHz.
I also think this is important because of the widely-shared Lubuntu
aspiration to be a Windows XP replacement. There are many old XP
machines (I have several here) that ran Flash successfully only
because they had not been updated to the current Flash version.
Otherwise their hardware would not measure up. And on general-duty
desktops, Flash is something that users expect to work.
--
Steve
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