[K12OSN] New EL6 install

[Jomegat]

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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