[K12OSN] New EL6 install

[burke at thealmquists.net]

You might try a plugin that doesn't load flash until you click on it. That seems to fix the worst websites.

Jomegat <jomegat at jomegat.com> wrote:

>On 08/26/2011 04:13 PM, Roland Roberts wrote:
>> On 08/26/2011 02:46 PM, Jomegat wrote:
>>> Just thought I'd report some status. I have switched my school over to
>>> a new server running K12Linux EL6-64. Before, we were running on
>>> another server with K12LTSP EL5-64. So far so good, but I have a
>>> little more work to do.
>>>
>>> As has been widely reported, Adobe Flash is terrible on TC's, and my
>>> case is no exception. If Hurricane Irene allows, I will spend some
>>> time this weekend enabling local applications. I will probably also
>>> run ooimpress (if not the entire oo suite) locally, as running several
>>> slide shows at once brought my old system to its knees. During an open
>>> house. It was not pretty!
>>
>> I installed the 64-bit Adobe plugin in my own firefox plugins directory
>> and it *seems* to be working fine for me. At least I can do youtube
>> without any problems.
>
>I had no trouble with youtube either.  But there was another flash-heavy 
>site that had real problems.  I'm not sure what site the students were 
>using, but it brought everything to its knees whatever it was.
>
>
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