Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers
On Monday 09 May 2016 17:37:06 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2016-05-09, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable
> > proposition for the desktop.
>
> True. The software versions are obviously quite old, and not all
> packages are supported[1]. Previous LTS releases did not support
> graphical web browsers; I don't know whether that is the case for
> wheezy LTS too.
If you liked the older kde, then trinity is the old kde-3.5, forked, with
all the known bugs fixed. Google TDE. They have an active mailing list,
and very active development if you've elected to use the r14 branch. I
am, no surprises yet in about 9 months now.
> > I still have jdk7 to sort out on three computers. In
> > Stable or newer jdk6 would surely have been removed for me by
> > aptitude?
>
> No, obsolete packages such as openjdk-6-* are left untouched[2]. It is
> up to you to remove them.
>
> 1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using#Check_for_unsupported_packages
> 2:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading
>.en.html#obsolete
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