OT:? flash used in redhat website

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 21:10 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 18:20 +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Not sure where i should post this, so i'll start in the extras list.
> >>
> >> I am subscribed to Red Hat Magazine. In the latest edition I got, "Red
> >> Hat Magazine August: How to set up a home web server", there is a link
> >> to "Kids are alright" ( which leads to
> >> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/022aug06/features/rhh/ ).
> >> On the bottom of the page there is a link to "Watch the
> >> slideshow" (which leads to
> >> http://www.redhat.com/v/swf/rhm022_rhh/slideshow_rhh.html ).
> >> I am using Fedora rawhide x86_64, and am not aware of any flash player
> >> for my platform (yes there is gnash but it's packaging is in progress,
> >> not finished yet). Are there any available? If not, I find the choice
> >> for having the slideshow in flash kind of strange, since there are other
> >> ways to have a slideshow that can be played with software that is
> >> readily available in Fedora (and my guess is RHEL suffers from the
> >> same?)
> > 
> > nspluginwrapper (anybody wanna package that for extras? ;) helps a lot
> > with flash and other plugins on x86_64. But yeah, requiring proprietary
> > software to view RH website is not very ... optimal.
> > 
> 
> All it does for me is crash, do you have more luck with it?

At least the current version (0.9.90.1) has been working very nicely for
the few days I've been using it on RHEL 4 and FC5. Flash and ICAclient
plugins are what I've tried so far, not a single crash yet but knock
wood :)

	- Panu -