Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:

> On 06/14/2010 11:20 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
>
> >> [snip]     
> > I thought 10.1 was the one with the problem.  In
> any case, I don't think the "hole" will cause much problems
> with Linux based systems.  When you read of the panic
> attacks people are having, it's usually about Windows
> systems.
> >
> > B
> >    
> I believe 10.1 is supposed to be the "big fix" for problems
> in 
> 10.0.<something>. They wouldn't have release 10.1
> last Friday if it was 
> supposed to have the serious fault they reported a few days
> before, 
> would they? You cut the part of my message where I said
> 10.1 on a 32 bit 
> machine appears to be causing kernel faults. If it can do
> that, who know 
> what nasty things it could do if its insecure.

Well, 10.1 really "fixed" everything, didn't it?  Even the Windows users had major problems with it.

A kernel fault?  Bad code, probably.  Do programmers do flow charts anymore?

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