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Re: acroread



On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:22:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:25:37AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:18:25PM +0800 or thereabouts, dsh gmail wrote:
> > > David Baron ??????:
> > > >>Yes, but i prefer linux. Too bad there is no
> > > >>flashplayer, or other software.
> > > >>
> > > >>    
> > > >Flash player beta 9 for linux is now available for Linux. PPC? I don't 
> > > >know--go to macromedia and check it out.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > what is ppc's mean?
> > 
> > Power Macintosh sold by Apple. Now that Apple is going Intel for
> > hardware, the original poster shouldn't count on too much backward
> > capability for newer applications, going forward. Short term maybe ...
> 
> that's unfortunate as my mom loves her Ubuntu iMac. Its already hard
> to find stuff for PPC, but this change by apple will make it even
> harder. I wonder, though, can you just pull down sources and compile?
> or are there issues that might prevent compilation on PPC?
> 
HI A,
those are the issues that are taken care of by the Debian porters --
arch specific issue that affect source code, assuming that app is not
binary only, which I think acroread is.
cheers,
Kev
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