14 DAY TRIAL // In a recent blog post entitled "Farewell, Flash," System76, the Denver, Colorado-based computer manufacturer specialized in the sale of desktops, notebooks, and servers, announces plans to remove support for the Adobe Flash plugin from its Ubuntu-based PCs.
If you've been reading the news lately, you know that the Adobe Flash Player plugin is a total mess these days and it is being banned from the Internet by some of the major players, including Mozilla in its latest Firefox web browser.
Therefore, System76 has decided to join the anti-Flash fan club and has already started to remove the "flashplugin-installer" package that provides the Adobe Flash Player plugin on their Ubuntu-based computers.
We remind everyone that Abobe stopped supporting the Flash Player plugin for Linux kernel-based operating system a long time ago, though minor security patches still land for the 11.2.202.x branch that can be downloaded from our website.
"We’re doing this for two reasons: These days, Flash isn’t really needed to enjoy the 'full web experience.' Security, security, security… did I mention security?" says Jason Gerard DeRose. "For security reasons, we strongly recommend that all our customers purge Flash from their systems."
Ubuntu users are urged to remove Adobe Flash from their PCs
In the same announcement, System76 strongly recommends their customers who own an Ubuntu-based computer to immediately remove the Adobe Flash Player plugin by running the command posted below.