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dpkg – How to install Scratch 2 on Ubuntu 16.10. or 17.04 (64bit)? – Ask Ubuntu

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Today my daughter asked me to install Scratch.

But not the tablet. I already did it. On the computer. I tought it was a breeze.

Actually it was as simple as “sudo apt install scratch“. Too bad I got an oldish 1.4 version and her book refers to version 2.0.

To make a long story short, they relied on the piece of rotting proprietary software known as “Adobe AIR”.

There are several guides on how to install it on Linux too, but the one I found to actually work is in a comment of

dpkg – How to install Scratch 2 on Ubuntu 16.10. or 17.04 (64bit)? – Ask Ubuntu

which works also on Debian.

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Basilisk web browser

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

This Basilisk web browser will be a boon for all those people who need to still use Java and Flash based websites:

  • Full support for JavaScript’s ECMAscript 6 standard for modern web browsing.
  • Support for all NPAPI plugins (Unity, Silverlight, Flash, Java, authentication plugins, etc.).
  • Support for XUL/Overlay Mozilla-style extensions.
  • Experimental support for WebExtensions (in gecko-target mode). Please note that some Mozilla-specific WebExtension APIs are not yet available.
  • Support for ALSA on Linux.
  • Support for WebAssembly (WASM).
  • Support for advanced Graphite font shaping features.
  • Support for modern web cryptography: up to TLS 1.3, modern ciphers, HSTS, etc.