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Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers

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On Monday 09 May 2016 17:37:06 Liam O'Toole wrote:

> On 2016-05-09, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable
> > proposition for the desktop.
>
> True. The software versions are obviously quite old, and not all
> packages are supported[1]. Previous LTS releases did not support
> graphical web browsers; I don't know whether that is the case for
> wheezy LTS too.

If you liked the older kde, then trinity is the old kde-3.5, forked, with 
all the known bugs fixed.  Google TDE. They have an active mailing list, 
and very active development if you've elected to use the r14 branch. I 
am, no surprises yet in about 9 months now.

> > I still have jdk7 to sort out on three computers.  In
> > Stable or newer jdk6 would surely have been removed for me by
> > aptitude?
>
> No, obsolete packages such as openjdk-6-* are left untouched[2]. It is
> up to you to remove them.
>
> 1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using#Check_for_unsupported_packages
> 2:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading
>.en.html#obsolete


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 10:40 +0200
  Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de> - 2016-05-09 11:30 +0200
    Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 11:50 +0200
  Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-05-09 13:00 +0200
  Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-05-09 13:30 +0200
  Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-05-09 14:20 +0200
    Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 16:20 +0200
      Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 18:00 +0200
        Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-09 18:20 +0200
          Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 18:40 +0200
      Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-05-09 19:10 +0200
  Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-05-09 15:10 +0200
    Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 16:20 +0200
  Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 23:40 +0200
    Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 00:10 +0200
      Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 00:40 +0200
        Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 01:00 +0200
        Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 01:00 +0200
    Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-05-10 00:20 +0200

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