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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone have any experience with ARM-based desktop units?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone have any experience with ARM-based desktop units?
  • From: Bart Trojanowski <bart [ at ] jukie [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:01:28 -0400
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:50, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote:
> looks seriously cool and might be fun to experiment with, but i recall
> reading as i was surfing that one of its drawbacks is that it doesn't
> support playing flash.
>
>  i'm confused -- how could that be a hardware issue?  or am i just
> being dense?  in any event, i'm interested in others' opinions of this
> as an ARM development and goofing around platform.

Adobe flash player is closed source, and is only released on x86 for
select few operating systems.  The open source players don't implement
all flash features, and are more buggy.  So you end up being able to
play flash, just not all flash.

-Bart