What | Removed | Added |
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Status | RESOLVED | REOPENED |
Resolution | WONTFIX | --- |
> Starting with openSUSE Leap 42.1, openSUSE no longer ships the Adobe Flash
Player. Most users will want to discontinue it's use anyway. Users can still
make use of the chromium-pepper-flash package (firefox users will also need to
install the freshplayerplugin package) which may be available in a community
repository like packman. You may also enable the "Adobe Flash" community
repository in YaST if you require legacy flash.
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This is on of the decisions which is absolutely not understandable, at least
for me.
I predict: this will cost openSuse a lot of users.
It's the same arrogance that Debian Linux had to experience in the past, too.
A lot of people included me are looking for a simple system beside the military
industrial information complex incl. Microsoft.
And what do you do? You send these users straight to them!
I had already crashed two Debian installations, and I'm afraid I will crash
Leap 42.1, too, due of your decision.
So I urge you: think this over. Support the automatic Flash installation
furthermore or at least let the user decide what he wants to have and offer him
a software driven possibility to choose.
Thank you for reading.