Adobe no longer maintaining yum repo for flash-plugin

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 22.06.2012 10:30, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
> On 06/22/2012 04:05 AM, Darlene Wallach wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 10/05/12 15:57, Andre Robatino wrote:
>>>> Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm not sure what else to do. The
>>>> Flash
>>>> plugin
>>>> was updated to 11.2.202.235 about a week ago.
>>>
>>> <snipped>
>>> This may be the answer:
>>> https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
>>>
>>> "NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target
>>> Linux as a
>>> supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security
>>> backports to
>>> Flash Player 11.2 for Linux."
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>> Frank
>>> "Jack of all, fubars"
>>>
>> I thought everything was moving to HTML5
>>
>> Darlene Wallach
> I had heard about this too, and went in search of alternatives, came
> up with "Lightspark" and "Gnash". both of which run on my F16 laptop
> and run well. I don't know why Adobe decided to pull the plug on Flash
> for Linux, but it opened my eyes to some great alternatives that IMO
> seem to work just fine.
>
>
> EGO II

Yes... the keyword here is *fine*. Sadly for some uses fine is not
enough and I'm not writing about multimedia and other entertainment but
about "business" usage. For example my ISP has a "great" user admin
panel made in Flash + Java. Don't laugh at this poor design, it's not so
uncommon in web app world. As a result, I'm unable to access any of
provided functions from Linux even with Adobe provided Flash! In my
country, government or to be more accurate - IT related clerks are
fascinated with Adobe AIR and Adobe Whatever technologies so they use
them whenever possible.

I was very sad to here that Adobe is dropping Linux support because it
will make me more Windows dependent. I have to keep one Windows box (now
it's virtual machine) in order to send my tax reports or access my ISP's
panel. Standards like HTML5 are really new and uncommon in this specific
areas and they're deployed very slowly. Certain functionality is needed
now and not in next 10 years, to make Linux (Fedora) the real player in
OS market.


Mateusz Marzantowicz