Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers
Lisi Reisz, Mo 09 Mai 2016 10:38:54 CEST:
> I seem to have hit the following:
> My client cannot run an up-to-date Flashplayer on Linux. If she insists on
> running Flashplayer, she can run an out of date Flashplayer in her current
> Debian system (if I can get a functional one installed) or she can go out,
> buy and install Windows. She will then be able to run an up-to-date
> Flashplayer. Or she can buy a new computer.
>
> It is a sad day when Windows is in any way better for a legacy computer than
> Linux; one of whose strengths used to be how good it was for legacy
> computers.
If the vendor of proprietary software X decides that they will provide a
version of X for proprietary OS Y but not for the open source OS Z you
would like to run X on, you're out of luck. That's one of major problems
with proprietary software (and one of the main reasons to avoid it
wherever possible).
It seems very strange to me that from running into this well-known
problem you draw the conclusion that proprietary OS Y is somehow
"better" than open source OS Z. I use an obviously very different metric
to decide which OS is "better".
> It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable proposition
> for the desktop. I still have jdk7 to sort out on three computers. In
> Stable or newer jdk6 would surely have been removed for me by aptitude?
I fail to see what's wrong with this (or why it should be a pity). jdk6
was EOL'ed about three years ago. If you still have not managed to
replace it (or to make sure that it can be replaced) with a supported
version, it's not Debian's fault.
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Regards
mks
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