Man I DON'T want to go back to windows but

[ranga227]

I may have no choice. I just can't get flash to work properly in Ubuntu. It works a little, on ads and a few videos at youtube but for the most part it still doesn't work. If I try to watch a video say at cbsnews.com it pulls up the video page like it's going to do something and then all I get is the dark screen. No video or even a player ever shows up. Man flash is the it thing on line for video these days. If you don't have it you don't see it. Period. I'm thinking of maybe switching to FreeBSD but that looks like it is far more technical than Ubuntu which I'm having trouble enough with. I have to be able to watch video. What's the point of high speed internet without it? I tried down loading Opera, but that thing sucks. So slow it's pathetic and flash still doesn't work. I'm getting desperate for answers here. I've googled until my fingers bleed and read till I was nearly blind only to lose again. I could really use some help with this issue. I'll take anything. Just something that maybe I haven't seen or thought of. Thanks.

[SiberForum]

HI!
May I ask about the web hosting solution you are currently have?

[Smash]

At you using 64bit architecture as the only issues with Flash I'm aware of occur with 64bit machines. I haven't seen any on the 32bit version, so unless you need/want > 3.5gb RAM, perhaps you could try the 32bit version?

[whcdavid]

I would recommend CentOS as well. It really a good distribution.

[Alexandre]

+1 for CentOS

[Blackfoot]

Did you install flash manually, or via the Ubuntu suggested method?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...s/Flash#Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

You shouldn't be having major flash problems on Ubuntu - as noted 64-bit can be more unstable. It is worth noting the proprietary plugin is the same (other than packaging) for all linux distros.

Ubuntu do have a troubleshooting page here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...roubleshooting

[Athlon]

I would recommend CentOS. It is also more of a development based distribution.

[ubservers]

I would recommend CentOS as well. It really a good distribution.

....for a personnal computer, centOS is a really bad choice. Fedora 13 or Ubuntu 10.04 are the way to go for a desktop/personnal computer. Less management, more user-friendly and more new softwares. ubuntu usually has good flash support. Where did you installed it from? Repo or from the flash web site?

[sometechieguy]

FreeBSD may be a bit more technical but it's quite an interesting system to use and they make it easy to install packages from source code from their "ports tree".
If the above replies don't help (especially about the recommended method of installing flash) and you aren't able to get flash plugins working in your browsers then you might want to try Fedora as someone said or even give FreeBSD a try.

[stiffen8]

At you with 64bit architecture as the only issue with Flash I'm awake of occur with 64bit machines. I haven't seen any on the 32bit version, so except you need/want > 3.5gb RAM, I don't know you could try the 32bit adaptation?