flash player for firefox on ppc

[Brian Durant]

On 25. jan 2006, at 15.50, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> Off the top of my head, I believe one of the options was the swf
> plugin for gstreamer, and I remember reporting some of the troubles
> "upstream." But when the developers learned I was using PPC I was met
> with complete silence.
>
> I gather there are difficult technical issues involved with getting
> open source flash to run on various platforms, so most have focused
> their efforts on Intel.

Yeah, one sometimes gets the feeling we are considered bastards or  
step-children at best ;-) That is also why Ubuntu is to be commended  
for doing a bang up job to at all port to PPC. There aren't very many  
distros out there willing to put in the effort and they will become  
even fewer now that Apple is moving to (gasp) Intel. Personally, I  
would have prefered that Apple had partnered up with AMD.

Cheers,

Brian