refracta wrote:backports are certainly preferred to downloading some random deb and hammering it in...and stable backports are made for debian stable...although they may have had less testing for issues they certainly have had more testing than a deb you download for ubuntu...Steelaworkn wrote:My humble understanding is that the backports are unstable.
flash is non-free software anyway so nobody can really vouch for the quality or stability anyway...except adobe...yea right....
This is not exactly right. the free implementations suck much more . You can ascertain quality or get an impression of just by running any non-free software no less than free software. Most linux users run the plugin so issues / stability is known.