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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: Dmitriy Korovkin <dnkorovkin [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:49:56 -0400
It was specifically noted here: http://trimslice.com/web/read-before-ordering
Adobe Flash playing is not supported due to, yes, because Adobe Flash
player is a proprietary software and released only for Linux on x86
platform.
Regards,
Dmitriy.

2011/10/30, Bart Trojanowski <bart [ at ] jukie [ dot ] ca>:
> 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
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