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Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?



On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:59:08PM -0400, Jack Dodds wrote:
> In hours per day, the biggest function of our Debian system is to access
> the Internet.  The absence of a FOSS implementation of Flash is a huge
> gap.  I have installed the closed source Flash 9 player and Firefox
> plugin on some of the family user IDs.   Without it I would face a
> revolt.  I don't use it (see the previous question) which is a
> handicap.  So, we need Flash - frequently updated!

flashplugin-nonfree is available from http://www.backports.org. An
"apt-cache search flash | less" reveals there are also "free"
implementations available, although I personally haven't tried any of
them.

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Interesting, normally mutt doesn't render the sig correctly when signed
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