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There could be an issue of opening up even more security issues for people with Flash still installed. That, in turn, will likely lead to an all out campaign to
by Anatidae 9y ago
There could be an issue of opening up even more security issues for people with Flash still installed. That, in turn, will likely lead to an all out campaign to remove Flash from everything possible (maybe not a bad thing at this point).
But, honestly - Flash as a platform hasn't advanced much in quite a while. What it once offered - rich multimedia runtime engine across platforms - is either available in the browser directly or can be attained through even more rich engines such as Unity3D.
- aarongolliver 9y agoThere is an all out campaign to remove flash from everything possible. Soon it will be gone from every major browser and phone. That's exactly what this is in response to. Personally I just want to ensure there's a way for me to go back and look at all the work I did in high school. It's already a pain to figure out how to run my old SWF files, and soon it's going to be nearly impossible. Maybe I should just snapshot a VM with everything set up correctly?
- simion314 9y agoIf you use the VM solution you probably need some open VM format, in case in a few years the current formats are dropped.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoJust use a raw disk image? What format is there to lose?
- simion314 9y agoVirtualBox uses an XML file that stores your VM settings, and for disks there are a few options,for my work I use the disks that grow (so I set the disk to 100Gb but if I use 20 Gb now it will use 20Gb of my real disk space)
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoThat's fair, but the XML is probably non-essential, and I believe there are already open source converters for most disk image formats. There's some risk, but I don't think it's very much.