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Doug <dougsweetser-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes: > Hello: > > It is sad when a piece-o-crap proprietary software such as flash is a > deal breaker for an open source project. There may be more legitimate > complaints about Adobe's closed software (pdf and flash) doing bad > things for the web than any other software. For what it's worth I'm running Fedora-12 Firefox with the evince PDF plugin, and it seems to work pretty well! So I think I'm okay not having AdobeReader installed. I might've installed it if they had a 64-bit version, but since I got evince working (with mozplugger) I see no reason. The only thing I have yet to do is: ln -s evince /usr/bin/acroread -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org PGP key available
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