No More Flash On Linux 1

Posted by JD 02/22/2012 at 23:00

Adobe Announces Plans To Abandon Flash On Linux

The Good

  • No more Flash-based attacks to Linux
  • No more Flash-based Ad Networks
  • HTML5 will be required for Linux users
  • One less Adobe software on our Linux systems

The Bad

  • HTML5 will be required for Linux users
  • Flash games are done

Now if we can only get Adobe to stop making Acrobat for Linux. We can still hope for next quarter.

  1. johnp_80 03/03/2012 at 05:31

    " HTML5 will be required for Linux users"

    It should be required for everybody, I have a love/hate relatioship with flash, but I wish that everybody would get away from flash, it tends to act like a virus IMHO.

    " Flash games are done "

    Not necessarily. Adobe ended support for all but the Pepper API. Originally, Mozilla declined to participate. Google Chrome will still be flash-capable. It’s always possible that Mozilla will change course with this development, if its not too difficult a hurdle. That’s just my take on things.

    It will still be possible to use flash, at the current version, depending on what the developers do, if I’m understanding things correctly.