[DC LoCo] gave up on flash alternatives

[Kevin Cole]

> Just wondering if anyone else has wimped out like me and just gone back
> to the non-free Adobe flash.....

I'm certianly no purist.  I've had occasional issues with evince, xpdf
over the years, where Adobe's acroread does a better job of whatever I
want.  That said, I keep revisiting alternatives from time to time,
and as they get better I shift over.  So, yeah, flash-nonfree or
whatever it's called for me as well.  But your e-mail is nudging me to
think I should look again at the free alternatives.  I occasionally
look at Open Laszlo to see if that's got something I can use.

The one place I have gone the other direction: I've bolloxed up
Firefox so badly with extensions and addons that it misbehaves on a
regular basis.  Cleaning out the .mozilla directories and starting
over seems to postpone the problem for a few months.  Opera, on the
other hand seems to be performing like a champ, and offers me less
opportunity to wreck it.  It saves me from myself.  (Cue Flint comment
about featuritus or versionitis or whatever.)

But Google Chrome is slated for Linux in June... or so the rumor goes.
 I imagine someone will turn it into a nice .deb package in relatively
short order.

I've gone the "compile it all yourself" route from time to time, but I
*like* package management soo much more that I'm loathe to go down
that road unless I must.  That said, I'm getting more comfortable with
bzr and svn repositories, where I can pull down updates of the source
and recompile on a regular basis.  Not ideal, but not too horrible.

If I had infinite time and enough money to live off of, I'd be
exploring Gentoo and LFS (Linux From Scratch).