Re: What OS is used By Richard Stallman

[braydon fuller <courier@braydon.com>]

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Joost Kremers wrote:
> Ignoramus18728 wrote:
>   
>> On 2008-01-07, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> he may, using gnash <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/>.
>>>       
>> How do you like this gnash, does it work very well?
>>     
>
> i have it installed on my ibook G3 under linux (powerpc, for which there's
> no adobe flash player), but i hardly use it. for simple flash stuff it
> works ok (not perfect, but ok, although with high cpu load), but anything
> that's a bit more complex than just a moving ad usually doesn't function
> very well. youtube videos (or any other videos for that matter) don't work
> for me at all.
>   
Running on many systems is one of the great things going for Gnash.
> however, i once read a review of gnash that was much more positive. the
> writer said most flash stuff works, and he had little trouble watching
> youtube videos. so perhaps it's my setup or a bad configuration or
> something.
>
> big disadvantage, IMHO: gnash requires the boost library, and that took
> forever to compile. really. i've compiled firefox a couple of times in the
> past, and i've compiled kernels on this ibook, and they didn't take as long
> as boost did...
>
>
>   
I'm not a C or C++ hacker, but from what I hear using C++ and using
Boost, while easier to maintain, doesn't have the performance of writing
in C. Is this true?


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