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GEEKS PARADISE

Posted: 03 Nov 2015, 04:35
by meisthfox
Hey All ! A couple of years ago I installed my first copy of Porteus to a flash drive, fooled with it, asked some questions on this forum, & had some relative success getting it to work as I liked. I felt it was pretty cool to have an OS on a flash drive & I still do. My problem is : I get additional apps., some from the USM, others from their own webpage ; I have porteus convert them into xzm modules, drop them into my modules folder on the flash drive, & they just
don't work ! Now I could post all this in this forum, & I know there would be u nice guys to help me out, but frankly, I just don't have the patience anymore. I follow the basic instructions, but I'm not into spending the time allotted to me here on earth configuring, tweaking & repairing linux software ! I'm pretty good w/ computers, but I'm no programmer, & have other aspirations besides fooling w/ all of this. For instance, how hard could it be updating adobe flash in Firefox ? I've seen many posts w/ tentative possible solutions, but nothing solid ...... So do I hate Porteus ? No..... But I'm frustrated & feel I just have to accept it as is ........ Thanx

Re: GEEKS PARADISE

Posted: 03 Nov 2015, 06:21
by Ed_P
meisthfox wrote:For instance, how hard could it be updating adobe flash in Firefox ?
Gee, I normally use USM to download the current module from alien and activate it. There was a point several months ago where his database was down for some reason and then I had to use a different method but other than that it's a pretty simple update using USM.

Re: GEEKS PARADISE

Posted: 03 Nov 2015, 07:14
by tome

Re: GEEKS PARADISE

Posted: 03 Nov 2015, 08:07
by meisthfox
Ed_P - I downloaded flash player from USM thru salix & converted to xzm, then placed that file in modules folder on my usb stick containing porteus OS - Rebooted, opened Firefox - went to youtube to play video - displayed message : "plugin is vulnerable & should be updated". What to do now ?

Re: GEEKS PARADISE

Posted: 03 Nov 2015, 10:53
by donald
Youtube, that's it why the human race exists.
If you need "flash" only for this, you can disable it completely.
youtube works fine with HTML5.

Re: GEEKS PARADISE

Posted: 03 Nov 2015, 14:47
by meisthfox
Nope ... not just youtube .... I need flash to work whenever I encounter a page w/ flash video.

Re: GEEKS PARADISE

Posted: 03 Nov 2015, 15:35
by Ed_P
meisthfox wrote:What to do now ?
If you have the 11,2,202,540 flashplayer module you are current. You can check what you have active via this link:

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

BTW With my x86-64 machine I don't see salix as an option for flashplayer.

Re: GEEKS PARADISE

Posted: 03 Nov 2015, 19:32
by Bogomips
NERDS PARADISE (would have been offensive) NOT YOUR RUN OF THE MILL USER'S PARADISE (could live with). After all Porteus quoted on Ecocomputing's web page as haven for Ubuntu refugees. :roll:

Re: GEEKS PARADISE

Posted: 03 Nov 2015, 22:03
by meisthfox
How 'bout that .... It actually worked ! Thanx Ed_P.