[nmglug] Approved coreboot AMD mobo

[Sam Noble]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:50:49PM -0600, Arlo Barnes wrote:
> Once at a meeting I mentioned that I thought I had in the past run a free
> version of Flash, and you said that the only free Flash you knew of was
> Gnash (which I misheard as Ganesh, which itself would be a cool name for a
> package).

There have been several projects which can masquerade as a flash plugin.

AFAIK, gnash is the most popular, and as you mention is actually quite
good at doing the kind of stuff flash was used for when gnash was a new
project. But very often fails for joe website's little player.swf that
plays some .flv video file. 

There are also at least swfdec, and lightspark. (I seem to recall one
with "game" in the name somewhere too, and some of these may be forks of
each other.)

I'm a fan and supporter of gnash, but if you want to watch video online,
I recommend not installing any flash plugin at all. Most sites use some
kind of javascript to try and guess what to serve you, and having gnash
installed seems to just get you a lot more "please upgrade your flash"
messages and links to adobe web sites.  The best stuff I've come across
for playing video on the type of sites that might want you to use flash,
has been the ViewTube* (and ViewTubePlus**) userscripts for javascript
replacing plugins like Greasemonkey.

Another good trick is to install UserAgentString switching plugin, that can
report your browser is one that the webmaster doesn't expect will have
flash, like an ithing.

> I installed Chromium just because some minor things in the interface
> are nice to have, and Firefox/Iceweasel does not have them; Chromium
> comes with a plugin called 'Pepper' Flash -

It looks like this is just instrumentation around the same non-free
flash.

*http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/87011
**http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/159658

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sam