On 2009-11-21, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> The new CBC video player. The only way I can get it to work is to >> run the browser and Flash under wine. > > The browser...? You mean firefox? I suppose you have to install the > Windows version? Yes. I used wine to run the Firefox 3.5 and Adobe Flash plugin win32 setup programs. It was much easier than I anticipated. > How does wine perform generally speaking? I've only used it a few times, specifically for the problem we are discussing, but Firefox (and Opera) seems to run more or less the same as the Linux version. It seems there are many other programs that are difficult to install or don't even work at all. > Does it make Linux as vulnerable to attacks as Windows is? I'm not sure, but I assume any executables have to be executed with wine. As I said, >> Far from ideal, Howard E. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
