Flash for linux(f4l) + windows installation .. howto??

[ItsMeOnly]

There's a sort of "Flash culture" going around at the moment that believes it's always best to use Flash. This is rarely true -- almost everything for which people tend to use Flash nowadays can be done in Javascript.

Splendid, can you tell that to my boss? :-D

Anyway, this is really a true story: I'm maintaining a site of Jounralism Institute at Warsaw University. We have recruitment for 2007, and the boss asked for info about "Open days", ok- the info is there, but she said: you have to do a flash one. We have to address young people that come to this site, and there should be something that moves and animates.
To that I simply replied: nothing will "move and animate" on my site- at least when I'm in charge. Flash is heavy, eats resources, limits functionality (if you don't have/enable it) and besides- I don't have one.
Basically, after long talk, where I was short of resigning, we sorta got to agreement. And guess what's coming for X-mas...

[shachi]

Yeah... I'd rather use the beta. Of course, it's a fairly moot point in my case, since I don't use Flash. There's a sort of "Flash culture" going around at the moment that believes it's always best to use Flash. This is rarely true -- almost everything for which people tend to use Flash nowadays can be done in Javascript.

I wish everyone was as intelligent to understand that, my teacher thinks flash is the best animation program there is and any program that can do a simple motion tween is like flash(strange isn't it?).

But anyways we aren't learning scripting at school so unfortunately we can't use javascript instead of flash. Thanks for your help anyways.

[BLiZZaRD]

I agree, and I do think that Flash is one of the greatest things since lock picks, but everything is good, in moderation! (Even butter)

Take my "Flash site" for example: Current page stats as compiled yesterday, excluding forums::

Total pages: 1203
Total Pages with Flash: 5
Total pages with PHP: 953
Total Pages with JS: 198

[fil]

You can use vmware player to mount linux with in windows. I am in fact typeing this in ubuntu kalmic kola in window right now.
Heres a link on how to do it

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/tec...n-windows.html

However, I have come to a sticking point. I can not work out how to run f4l any pointers?

[BLiZZaRD]

Wow, feeling resurrected? 4 year old threads? Awesome.

You can't run F4L in a windows based Linux install. F4L requires the Linux Kernel and the "thumbstick" versions don't have a true kernel to attach to.

Its similar to trying to install windows registry items in a mac.


<edit>
Allow me to state that the "can't run" is a false statement. I have in fact run F4L off a thumbstick drive install. But I also installed Linux into the thumbdrive as if it were a harddrive. So the Kernel is present on the thumb.