On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Robert Blair wrote:
Slightly off topic but related: now that 1) adobe is no longer
supporting flash for linux firefox plugins and 2) google is no longer
supporting google-chrome on SL, do we have a flash crisis? Is there a
plan to deal with this by TUV?
1) According to
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html
Adobe will support non-pepper flash 11.2 for five years from release,
so we have another four years and it isn't a crisis yet.
2) For those who haven't heard this, some links:
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95411
http://www.muktware.com/5203/google-says-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-obsolete
Seems that the issue is Google want to use C++11 / gcc4.6 which
is not standard on RHEL6/SL6.
(I'm out of the loop but "developers ... prefer the new C++11 for
the obvious security reasons" comes as a suprise to me.)
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