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Date:      Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:13:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>
To:        Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>, Simon Siemonsma <simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD compatibility
Message-ID:  <20020804071345.523.qmail@web20705.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020803214104.33d88d29.yid@softhome.net>

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Try use the plugger in the port. It installs several
plugins.

-ed

--- Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:11:24 +0200
> Simon Siemonsma <simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Beware however that Linux browser plug-ins would
> not work with native FreeBSD 
> > programs. So if you install KDE you can't use the
> linux Flash plugin
> > FreeBSD. The same is true for the cross-over
> plug-in.
> 
> There seems to be a FreeBSD flash plugin, my BSD
> flavor of Mozilla works fine with Flash and Java.
> (Though thanks to Sun not yet approving the shipping
> of Java binaries installation is a multi-part
> affair.) 
> 
> BTW, you can always use Linux-Mozilla or
> Linux-Netscape4 to use Linux plugins such as Linux
> realplayer. They work fine under BSD, there's no
> real performance hit for the emulation. I don't know
> about the cross-over plugin though, that could be
> tricky since it's a windows emulator, though since I
> haven't bought it I don't miss it. :-)
> 
> > Personally I'm considering switching to Gentoo
> because of this.
> 
> Your choice. Gentoo may have a form of ports
> implemented in python, but that's about where the
> BSDishness ends.
> 
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