[ale] Transition from OS X to Ubuntu complete...but....Flash?

[Tim Youngblood]

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On 7/30/07, John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
>
> So I successfully migrated my wife yesterday. After a little hoop jumping
> to get the broadcom wireless card working, we were up on the net and
> running, and WOW! My wife immediately noticed how much faster Ubuntu was
> than OS X on the exact same hardware. She's very pleased so far...and I
> thought the funniest thing was that, as soon as she sat down to the Gnome
> desktop, my very non-technical wife's first comment was "Wow...this looks so
> much better than the old one [OS X]". She has no idea that one of OS X's
> strengths is supposedly it's UI design. +1 for OSS.
>
> Anyway, the one killer right now is that there is no flash player for PPC
> Linux. The wife and kids use flash pretty often...my girls play a lot of
> Nick Jr. and Disney flash games and my wife likes a few sites that are
> flash-based as well.
>
> I installed gnash without holding out too much hope. It's works....ok....a
> few sites looked worked but were pixelated, but most of the games, etc just
> won't work.
>
> So, my solution is probably going to be to create a launcher that will
> pipe mozilla down from one of my x86 machines (unless you have a better
> suggestion).
>
> I have tested it over ssh -CX and it works well, but sound is obviously
> absent.
>
> So, my questions are:
>
> a. Do you have a better suggestion, and
> b. in the absence of (a), do you have any suggestions on getting an
> application working from a remote machine with sound? I know that there is a
> way to do this with remote X, but because this is a wireless connection with
> limited (broadcom drivers will only go to 11 mbps, even though card and AP
> are 802.11G) speed and the overhead of PPTP, I'd like to compress it in
> some way, likely ala ssh -C.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> John
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