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Jim, are you sure it wasn’t Gnash or some free equivalent of Flash that allowed the “Flash” content to play?
Nice looking distro. If Gnash, or whatever it is is stable enough to work now, we really ought to look seriously at giving Flash the Deep Six, but we also ought to be working hard to go to the next generation of audio and video that are based on open standards, not some vendor’s idea that’s been re-engineered. Apple may miss out for a short while on Flash, but Jobs is probably right that Flash is in the last 10-20% of life rather than on the upside, which is why Apple dropped it from their iPad development.
On packaging, people do differ and I am one of them. There is nothing wrong with Synaptic. If I am in a GUI environment I will use it to manage my system. A lot of the time though, I use apt-get to install packages and apt-cache search to search for packages. They are easily faster than update manager, Software Manager, or Synaptic. When I’m on Kubuntu though, sometimes I will allow the KPackagekit to run, and the reason is because it gives me feedback on what it is doing with the packages better than Software Manager or Update Manager, and that is important to me, so I can make sure that the system is doing the right thing. For those who wouldn’t know what the right thing even is, I suppose that brain dead package managers that are as quiet as possible are good, but personally they scare me – they can break your system before you even know it, then you wonder what happened. No thanks.
Sounds like this software has some promise. Maybe I’ll actually try it out.
Damn, you’re right Brian! I just looked in the plugins and it has Gnash 0.8.8 listed there. I think what I saw in the first screenshot was probably a YouTube error not a flash error.
Mystery solved! Thanks!
Well just goes to show you, it doesn’t take much to confuse me.
By the way, when I keep a system for a while, I tend to have plenty of alias commands defined so that when I use a console terminal at a shell command prompt, I do not need to type in a lot of long commands. I have several one to four character alias definitions for common things that I tend to do often. I also have command recall, so I can get the most frequent commands, which typically I do over and over again. In fact, when I type in the commands manually once, I can retrieve them from history and use the typing I did once to SAVE typing part of my alias definition! Also, once I’ve created those definitions once, I can copy them all from other systems – either copying them from one partition of another system or over the Internet using Google Docs, GMail, Yahoo Mail, or anywhere that I can put a script – even a talkback forum like this one. For example:
alias c=’clear’
alias dir=’dir –color=auto’
alias dl=’sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -d dist-upgrade’
alias gg=’ping -c 3 google.com’
alias grep=’grep –color=auto’
alias h=’history’
alias inst=’sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ‘
alias l=’ls -CF’
alias la=’ls -A’
alias ll=’ls -l’
alias ls=’ls –color=auto’
alias ug=’sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade’
alias vdir=’vdir –color=auto’
alias ya=’ping -c 3 yahoo.com’
one of those did not translate here well:
alias inst=”sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install $@”
It’s late, Jim, so we can forgive you. Gnash is supposedly coming along, but I had not really bothered to play with it. If it’s doing the job, perhaps I should ditch Flash now and start going with Gnash whenever possible.
I added an edit to the review, Brian, and credited you for the scoop on the plugins. Good job!
Thanks Jim, glad I could help. That’s the benefit of spending hours and hours reading the technical journals every single day. I can’t possibly use and test everything or know everything, but what I can do is have a pretty good idea of what is out there and when it may come in handy. To my knowledge, I haven’t even used Gnash yet myself (or maybe I did and I forgot it). Early on, it was said to be promising, but unstable. Like a lot of free software, that can change in a hurry. Before long – perhaps already, it can exceed the usefulness and capabilities of static, unmoving proprietary software.
Just look at Firefox, then Chrome. Several years ago Firefox improved upon Internet Explorer and made IE look like a dinosaur. These days, Chrome seems to be doing the same thing to everything else. But note that the competition is starting to pick up, and the old classics are either going to respond or disappear, their choice.
On that note, I think the days of Flash are numbered. Gnash can replace it in the interim, but then Gnash can evolve, perhaps doubling to handle either legacy Flash format or some new emerging format. Then again, it might be better to have single, small, individual tools to handle those formats versus a monstrous monolithic tool.
Because of your very comprehensive review I tried Trisquel and then installed it. I have had no situations with it at all except for playing videos and, basically I tweaked Sea Monkey, in a completely compliant manner, and the distro now “just works”. I’ve looked long and hard at the few “completely” FOSS distros and they have all come up lacking in some way, (usually related to my work requirements). Trisquel fulfills my philosophical goals and practical goals for using Linux. Thank you very much for introducing me to what will be my distro for the forseeable future!
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