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Re: [LUG] Flash Player 9 for PPC

 

Matt Lee wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:13:16PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote:
>
>   
>> Matt and I noted that the gnash package in Debian experimental works
>> better on PowerPC, than i386 (where it does bad linking things - GNU
>> libtool and friends - hiss).
>>
>> I don't think I conveyed the i386 problem with the build to the
>> maintainer effectively, but I suspect a certain amount of itch
>> scratching is going on.
>>
>> Not Macromedia flash, but it is getting there, fiyh
>>     
>
> Yeah, I can't think anyone would really want a proprietary version, except
> maybe people who think GNU/Linux is just a free of charge Mac OS X.
>
>   
I can think of a few people who would rather want proprietory version 
and run Linux or they'd stick with Windows.

Rob


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