Hi Dominic, I should point out that I'm just a user/admin of Ubuntu/Edubuntu. Below are just my observations wrt flash, etc. I imagine the developers probably have better ideas.
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Dominic Webb wrote: > Yes an OS flash plugin would be great. However a lot of the content that > we are seeing being used just wont work in anything other than the Adobe > player. Exactly the problem (though strictly it's macromedia not adobe). > Bandwidth isnt really an issue its the CPU utilisation that increases > and stays at a disproportionately high level, compared to other > applications. I see. So you're mainly looking for a way to reduce flash plugin's CPU usage? > On the server RAM side we always allocate slightly higher > than suggested amounts of RAM per thin client session, so I don't know > if less/low amounts of RAM is an issue. Is it? Well, if it's not an issue for you, then I guess it's not :-) > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ > > > I have seen the project but I come back to the same questions about > 'when' we could use it, that I ask myself with so many FLOSS > projects/apps. I wasn't really proposing it as a solution for today. I thought you were looking for an approach to improve the situation and I suspect gnash or something like it is probably your best bet. I haven't really tested it myself but they claim that it plays a fair bit of stuff. > 1. What needs to be done to bring it upto the same or near comparable > level as the Adobe player > > 2. What resources does the project lack that we could look to provide You'd probably be best to address these questions to the gnash guys. > If someone puts a proposal together that will result in us being able to > remove our dependency on the Adobe Flash player then I'll put > (financial) resources to it. If you're up for it, it might be an idea to talk to Petter Reinholdtsen who is also interested in this, working as he does on Debian-edu: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg47904.html http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/FlashInDebianEdu http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/gnash Gavin -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
