Minimum hardware requirements for Adobe Flash

[Yorvyk]

On 17/06/13 15:37, John Hupp wrote:
> On 6/17/2013 9:30 AM, Yorvyk wrote:
>> According to those nice people at Adobe the minimum requirements
>> for running Flash with Linux are:-
>>
>>
>> 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or
>>  faster processor for netbooks
>>
>> Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 5.6 or later (32 bit and 64 bit),
>>  openSUSE® 11.3 or later (32 bit and 64 bit), or Ubuntu 10.04 or
>> later (32 bit and 64 bit)
>>
>> Mozilla Firefox 17 or Google Chrome 5 12MB of RAM; 128MB of
>> graphics memory
>>
>> The hardware requirement, from my experience, appears to be
>> remarkably accurate and maybe something we need to highlight.
>>
>> Is anybody using Gnash and is it any better in that respect?
>>
> "Maybe something we need to highlight."
>
> I agree.  I spent a *lot* of time trying to figure out Adobe Flash
> performance problems about a year ago when I was first digging into
> Lubuntu.  Finally I wondered if it could possibly be a hardware
> requirement issue and dug up those specs.  Though I had forgotten
> that the graphics memory requirement is that high.  In my case it
> seemed that the most sensitive requirements were the processor speed
> and the RAM.  I would be interested to know how firm the graphics
> memory requirement is.
>
Like all these things I don’t' think it's the absolute minimum, as Flash
'runs' on a machine here with 64MiB discrete graphics memory, 2.4 GHz P4 
and 1GiB RAM. It won't do full screen and can be a bit jittery if other 
software is running. Similar experience on a laptop with 1GiB RAM, 128 
MiB shared graphics memory and a Celeron M 540 1.86GHz.


> I also think this is important because of the widely-shared Lubuntu
> aspiration to be a Windows XP replacement.  There are many old XP
> machines (I have several here) that ran Flash successfully only
> because they had not been updated to the current Flash version.
> Otherwise their hardware would not measure up.  And on general-duty
> desktops, Flash is something that users expect to work.


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Steve