I do not tend to belive flash work only on x86 platfrorms what about AMD OR INTEL64 or ATOM they work I Do However have notice they have been performac issuses wit my atom system but i do not know if it a cpu lag or not enoght ram . Jeff Sent from my Nokia phone -----Original Message----- From: Dmitriy Korovkin Sent: 10/31/2011 1:49:56 PM To: Bart Trojanowski Cc: Ottawa Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone have any experience with ARM-based desktop units? 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 > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux