2009/12/7 Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>: > Most of these are obsolete packages, but some are user applications > where we probably should try to provide a free software alternative > for within Debian: > > 4 acroread-debian-files 61 40 17 4 0 (Not in > sid) > 5 acroread 61 39 18 4 0 (Not in > sid) > 13 acroread-data 59 10 6 3 40 (Not in > sid) > 16 acroread-escript 58 8 5 3 42 (Not in > sid) > 18 mozilla-acroread 52 8 3 1 40 (Not in > sid) > > Adobes PDF reader. The free alternatives have been lacking when it > come to form support and encryption. Hope this can be solved soon. > Would be nice to have a good enough PDF viewer as free software in > Squeeze.
encryption support is there in evince (I get many bank statements as encrypted PDF and those work). > 8 flashplayer-mozilla 43 17 1 0 25 (Not in > sid) > > Adobe Flash player. Gnash is still not good enough, but it handle > most web ads and some of the video sites. gnash for most online flash content, but some may not work. > 11 opera 20 14 2 4 0 (Not in > sid) > > Web server. I guess Firefox/Iceweasel is a good enough alternative, > but would be good to know why people still use Opera. Personally I > use it because I lack the time to migrate to Iceweasel while keeping > my browser history, bookmarks, certificates etc. I would go for iceweasel. I think it can import those details from opera > 12 freenx 31 12 11 0 8 (Not in > sid) > > Remote desktop. There are alternatives, but I am not sure they have > the same feature set. google recently release a freenx client called neatx, but no one has packaged it yet. VNC should work. > 20 realplayer 16 8 7 1 0 (Not in > sid) > > Media player. Can vlc/xine/gmplayer play the same files? yes, much more than realplayer. - Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign
