06-26-2017, 02:22 PM
Use a search engine for "phase out adobe flash" and you'll find plenty of articles showing that flash is gradually being phased out all over, not just in Linux. HTML5 is being used more and more to deliver content (eg. streaming videos) that was once done by flash plugins and most/all modern browsers support that. Some examples:
To answer question regarding Linux version of flash player, yes Adobe stopped making new versions of it for Linux a while back, but they continue to release security updates for the last one produced for Linux -- which is why you'll occasionally see it when running LL updates.
- http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computin...4012393659
- http://www.businessinsider.com/adobe-fla...ing-2015-8
- http://fortune.com/2016/07/21/mozilla-go...obe-flash/
To answer question regarding Linux version of flash player, yes Adobe stopped making new versions of it for Linux a while back, but they continue to release security updates for the last one produced for Linux -- which is why you'll occasionally see it when running LL updates.
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