X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/79941f6fd9b2b734be3f403a9190841032ec66f7..350d73d9c83b01fe16cac24017e3f9bfbd3d6c50:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 9580a6a0fe..4110ff85a2 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,55 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html + Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:10:00 +0200 + +<p>In the <a href="http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote">Debian +popularity-contest numbers</a>, the adobe-flashplugin package the +second most popular used package that is missing in Debian. The sixth +most popular is flashplayer-mozilla. This is a clear indication that +working flash is important for Debian users. Around 10 percent of the +users submitting data to popcon.debian.org have this package +installed.</p> + +<p>In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008 +(«<a href="http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/Rapporter?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Skolelinux_i_bruk_rapport_1.0.pdf">Skolelinux +i bruk – Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og +stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs</a>»), one of the most important problems +schools experienced with <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian +Edu/Skolelinux</a> was the lack of working Flash. A lot of educational +web sites require Flash to work, and lacking working Flash support in +the web browser and the problems with installing it was perceived as a +good reason to stay with Windows.</p> + +<p>I once saw a funny and sad comment in a web forum, where Linux was +said to be the retarded cousin that did not really understand +everything you told him but could work fairly well. This was a +comment regarding the problems Linux have with proprietary formats and +non-standard web pages, and is sad because it exposes a fairly common +understanding of whose fault it is if web pages that only work in for +example Internet Explorer 6 fail to work on Firefox, and funny because +it explain very well how annoying it is for users when Linux +distributions do not work with the documents they receive or the web +pages they want to visit.</p> + +<p>This is part of the reason why I believe it is important for Debian +and Debian Edu to have a well working Flash implementation in the +distribution, to get at least popular sites as Youtube and Google +Video to working out of the box. For Squeeze, Debian have the chance +to include the latest version of Gnash that will make this happen, as +the new release 0.8.8 was published a few weeks ago and is resting in +unstable. The new version work with more sites that version 0.8.7. +The Gnash maintainers have asked for a freeze exception, but the +release team have not had time to reply to it yet. I hope they agree +with me that Flash is important for the Debian desktop users, and thus +accept the new package into Squeeze.</p> + + + My first perl GUI application - controlling a Spykee robot http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html @@ -411,20 +460,5 @@ firmwaren. :)</p> - - Rob Weir: How to Crush Dissent - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Rob_Weir__How_to_Crush_Dissent.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Rob_Weir__How_to_Crush_Dissent.html - Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:20:00 +0200 - -<p>I found the notes from Rob Weir on -<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/robweir/antic-atom/~3/VGb23-kta8c/how-to-crush-dissent.html">how -to crush dissent</a> matching my own thoughts on the matter quite -well. Highly recommended for those wondering which road our society -should go down. In my view we have been heading the wrong way for a -long time.</p> - - -