Which Plugin do I install
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:14:39 +0000 For those who are interested: which among other things mentions flashing bullets, sugar panes (!) and visible laserbeams. There is...
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-06, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly: Yes. I for one, love that about good keyboards. In the old days...
The laws relating mbutt to velocity contain the factor "lambda", of the form "1-sqrt(1-(v^2-c^2))". So, as v (velocity) approaches c (speed of light), the ratio...
tab enlightened us with this load of crap:
We're back to this? Java is the responsibility of Sun. Flash is the responsibility of Macromedia. And on, and on, and on. I've pointed this out in another thread that if something goes wrong on the Windows side, people say that isn't Microsoft's fault, but in Linux, it's all Linux's fault. Bullpoo.
On Monday 06 March 2006 18:00, The Ghost In The Machine stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Actually...
Sun, Macromedia, and any other plugin publisher can make them a simple point and click affair just as it is on Windows. They can provide generic rpms that'll work in all rpm based distros, and debs for Debian based distros, and provide the source for source based distros and those that would rather compile the tarball themselves. Then the website could detect the distro, determine what package management system it's based on (rpm, dpkg, etc.) and correctly install the necessary binary or give the user the choice of installing via Emerge for Gentoo or just manually configuring-compiling-installing it. It's really that simple. They could probably find volunteers to package the binary stuff for them in the open source community. But...they don't. Blame them.
However, it's not that hard with most distros. Most common plugins are installed for you on retail distros like Suse, Mandriva, and even free offerings from the likes of Ubuntu offer them, though you'll have to do more to put it on. You just have to run Automatix, or adjust your repository list, and locate it with some common sense. You don't load Java, but rather the Java 2.0 Runtime Environment, or J2RE. Flashplayer is obvious. You do a search in Synaptic, choose what you want, and off and running you go. The resources for learning how to open up your repository list and making changes, either enabling some commented out repositories or adding others is very easy to find on the web. Most distros have a way to get these non-free plugins for anyone who halfway knows a thing or two about using computers.
If you hate Linux so much, why do you keep trying out distros??
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