[ale] Linux + Flash + Old laptop + kids

[Jeff Hubbs]

For what it's worth, the binary Firefox package along with the 
netscape-flash package seems to run the Teletubbies game (shudder) just 
fine under Gentoo.  This tells me that your problem isn't so much 
pbskids.org as the way the software is integrated in DamnSmall and FC4.


Robert Story wrote:

>My mom has given me and old laptop (K6-550 MHz, 64MB ram) and asked me to turn
>it into something the grandkids can use to surf/play games. I've found
>DamnSmallLinux to deal with the low memory size, but the problem I now have is
>that Firefox + Flash doesn't work right on the primary site the kids use:
>pbskids.org. The Teletubbies and Sesame Street portions have flash games, and
>while the page detects the flash plugin and puts up a white box (where a right
>click reveals the flash plugin menu), the flash game/movie doesn't
>actually load. Thinking it might be the distro, I tried the site on my FC4
>box, with the same results.
>
>Anyone using Linux for a kid system have pbskids.org working successfully? Any
>other suggestions?
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