Weekend Project: Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Flash on Linux

“Linux users have never been well-served by Flash. The official
browser plugin offered by Adobe has tended to lag behind releases
for other platforms. Flash is available only for 32-bit
Intel-compatible processor architectures, and it has long been a
source of browser slowdowns, freezes, and crashes. And to all that
the fact that it is a proprietary, binary-only blob, and you can
see why many Linux desktop users want to free themselves from it.
You can, with a little bit of time and preparation, this
weekend.

“You may wonder why you need Flash support at all. If you are an
adult without kids, you may generally encounter Flash only in its
use as a cross-platform video delivery mechanism, and in many ways
this is the easiest usage of Flash to dispense with. There are
video extraction tools and extensions to pull video right out of
Flash wrappers at the click of a button, allowing you to forget it
ever existed. If you do have kids, however, you likely see Flash
games and interactive content all the time (perhaps even too often
for your liking…), and for you, simply ignoring Flash is not a
real option.”

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