Wednesday, December 16, 2009  The sad state of Adobe software.
The free software world is remarkable in it's completeness at
this stage. There are applications to cover nearly any function
or task you might have. Many very powerful applications that
rival commercial equivalents.  For missing free programs, some
companies actually develop linux versions of their software, one
example is Adobe. They produce a linux version of their Flash
player, and it works well enough. Well, let's just say it works
well enough to get by.  It's no secret that the linux version of
the Flash player is a gue cpu hog. Actually, the mac version as
well, but not as bad. Still, it seems to me that the Flash
player uses far more cpu that would be needed to accomplish its
task.  Using VLC, I can play a 720p HD video compressed with the
H.264 codec, and VLC will use less than %17 of the CPU on my
2.4Ghz dual core celleron.  Adobes Flash player will use over
%60 of the same chip playing a much lower quality video full
screen... By contr