Toes in the Ubuntu waters..

[Joel Goguen]

On 8/21/07, Don Kelly <karfai at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/21/07, Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> wrote:
> >    The Ubuntu installer mis-detected my monitor and only gave me 800*600
> > and 640*480 as resolution options, a problem I didn't have on my
> > laptops.  In order to install I had to move both panels out of the way
> > as otherwise I couldn't click on any of the 'next' buttons (windows
> > large enough that they were taller than the screen).
> >
>
> What sort of machine was this?  Video adapter?  Perhaps this is a
> corner case with rare hardware that could be logged as a bug?
>
> >
> >    Other things:  I guess I was surprised that mozplugger and
> > flash-nonfree weren't included by default on a fresh desktop.  While I
> > knew that they had to be there, a new user might actually believe that
> > the ability to view Flash pages or PDFs in the browser just wasn't there
> > with Ubuntu.
> >
>
> I recall there was a  "good reason" for this, but I can no longer
> remember the reason. :-P Was it just the "restricted formats" issue?

AFAIK, flash-nonfree isn't included because of the license.
mozplugger, I don't know why.