[mdlug] Adobe abandons Linux !?!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 16:03 -0500, rstaff wrote: 
> It appears that there is no longer any current Linux updates for the 
> Adobe PDF Reader and the Adobe Flash Player from Adobe.

Meh.  It is hard to care.

> There are a number of native Linux PDF readers that do a decent job, 
> thus not an issue for me.

Ditto.

> However, there are many web sites that use the Adobe Flash Player 
> plugin.  

And most work with any version of Flash.

> I fear that my Ubuntu 12.04 desktop will eventually become 
> persona non grata at these sites.

It probably already is, it just happens to work anyway.

> Is there a native Linux solution to the Flash Player plugin issue?

There is an Open implementation.  On openSUSE the package is
gnash-browser-plugin.

> For now I have been ignoring the warning messages that Firefox keeps 
> popping up at these sites.
> P.S.  Should I abandon Linux as my primary desktop PC?

Because of Flash?