Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 03:46:02AM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
> > That doesn't seem relevant to whether 32 or 64bit works with flash.
> > That's just a problem with the flash plugin in general.
>
> Not really, Debian's security support for flash is often lacking.
> If users are lucky there will be a backport available, if not
> then they are on their own.
>
> > Same package and version exists in stable.
>
> Will that be the case in 6 months time? Of course not.
No, of course not. But that's a general problem with Linux, not a specific
to 64-bit. I think we're all looking forward to the gradual demise of Flash in
favour of something that's actually a standard. Or at least to something where
the client implementations keep up with the servers. Because that's one of the
problems with Flash -- that people with servers unnecessarily rush to update to
the latest version, leaving the Linux clients in the dist.
-- hendrik
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