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["Ali Linx (amjjawad)" <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello Leszek,
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>
>> > THIS IS NOT GOOD :(
>> >
>> > We need to solve this issue ASAP before we carry on with our Start
>> Ubuntu
>> > campaign.
>>
>> How are we suppose to do this ?
>
>
> NO idea :D
>
>
> The Adobe Flashplayer is proprietary software.
>> (and is simply talking crappy software)
>>
>
> It seems only with Linux, it has these issues :(
>
>
>
>> Alternatives like gnash or lightspark exists already. They support
>> graphic shardware way better than the Adobe Flashplayer however they don't
>>
>> support video flashsites too good (they were never really meant for this)
>>
>
> browser-plugin-lightspark
>
> browser-plugin-gnash
>
> I tried to check these and it has tons of dependencies :( even more than
> what VLC has.
>
>
> > Say, have anyone tried to play that on Windows XP? I have no XP installed
>> > on any of my machines. Is there someone with the same machine or close
>> to
>> > it can play the same video on XP and see what happens?
>> >
>> > It would be really bad if XP will work better :(
>>
>> It will work better as Windows XP is supported way better by Adobe.
>>
>
> That what I expected and was afraid of. This is bad/sad news :(
>
>
>
>> Also notice that the Adobe Flash Player does not support non SSE2 capable
>> CPUs
>> under Linux  which the Adobe Flashplayer for Windows does. So basically a
>> old
>> computer with a non SSE2 capable CPU will run way better with Windows XP
>> when
>> it comes to Flash content.
>>
>
> Again, bad/sad news :(
>
> http://phillw.net/hardware/BnA9pw11
> It does not show whether I have SSE2 or not.
>
> I need to check again on that machine, I'm on my Laptop right now.
>
>
>
>> Sadly we can't really do anything about it.
>> As the flashplayer was abondend for mobile plattforms and linux I also
>> really
>> don't see any future for it currently.
>>
>
> :(
>
>
> What we could do is advice users to use either VLC (for youtube videos that
>> aren't available as html5 video) or other alternatives (minitube, ...) .
>> That
>> will cover a lot of online video use cases but sadly not all.
>
>
> Which is not good enough and sad enough.
>
> Sigh!
>


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@Phill
The script on that hardware Wiki Page does not show the above details of
"sudo lshw" - http://phillw.net/hardware/BnA9pw11

How can someone adjust it to include that? IMHO, it is importrant to show
the output of "sudo lshw".

Thank you!

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