On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Robert Blair wrote: > Slightly off topic but related: now that 1) adobe is no longer > supporting flash for linux firefox plugins and 2) google is no longer > supporting google-chrome on SL, do we have a flash crisis? Is there a > plan to deal with this by TUV? 1) According to http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html Adobe will support non-pepper flash 11.2 for five years from release, so we have another four years and it isn't a crisis yet. 2) For those who haven't heard this, some links: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95411 http://www.muktware.com/5203/google-says-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-obsolete Seems that the issue is Google want to use C++11 / gcc4.6 which is not standard on RHEL6/SL6. (I'm out of the loop but "developers ... prefer the new C++11 for the obvious security reasons" comes as a suprise to me.) -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
