Dell to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on selected desk/laptops

[manchicken]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 11:41:08 Mark Wallace wrote:
> I thought that it was part of the default install with Ubuntu.   It is so
> critical to the functioning of Firefox that you couldn't leave it out.  It
> either was or Firefox took you almost immediately to the plug in finder
> because all of those visuals that flash, like adds, run with Falshplayer. 
> It would be impractical to surf the net without flashplayer because almost
> every page would have puzzle pieces on it.
>
> Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:  Mark Wallace wrote:
> > It's for real. The video uses flashplayer, so it will run fine in Linux.
>
> Flash is actually a proprietary format with only incomplete libre
> implementations. That's why it's not included by default in Ubuntu.
>
> Matt Flaschen

It's a bad idea to bundle the flash player by default.  It's not free 
software, and there are alternatives.  With the marked increase in Ubuntu 
OEMs, I'm hoping that these free software flash players get the boost they 
need.

-- 
~ manchicken <><
(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nfluence with large hammer.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0


Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html