OT:? flash used in redhat website

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 18:20 +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Not sure where i should post this, so i'll start in the extras list.
> 
> I am subscribed to Red Hat Magazine. In the latest edition I got, "Red
> Hat Magazine August: How to set up a home web server", there is a link
> to "Kids are alright" ( which leads to
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/022aug06/features/rhh/ ).
> On the bottom of the page there is a link to "Watch the
> slideshow" (which leads to
> http://www.redhat.com/v/swf/rhm022_rhh/slideshow_rhh.html ).
> I am using Fedora rawhide x86_64, and am not aware of any flash player
> for my platform (yes there is gnash but it's packaging is in progress,
> not finished yet). Are there any available? If not, I find the choice
> for having the slideshow in flash kind of strange, since there are other
> ways to have a slideshow that can be played with software that is
> readily available in Fedora (and my guess is RHEL suffers from the
> same?)

nspluginwrapper (anybody wanna package that for extras? ;) helps a lot
with flash and other plugins on x86_64. But yeah, requiring proprietary
software to view RH website is not very ... optimal.

	- Panu -