OT:? flash used in redhat website

[Hans de Goede]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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.
> 

All it does for me is crash, do you have more luck with it?

Regards,

Hans