Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:01:32 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> To: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> Cc: jamie@bishopston.net, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, narayan@neelum.com Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... Message-ID: <485AD73C.4080605@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 John Kozubik wrote: | | Don't shoot the messenger: | | | FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to | support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion. gnash-devel provides flash 9 and works pretty well... | | | Running IE in Wine is not a solution. | | Running another OS in vmware to simply browse the web is not a solution. | | Free flash alternatives and flash movie players, etc., are, unfortunately, | not a solution. | | ports/linux-flashplayer9 _is_ a solution, however it (currently) fails | badly. | | | Solution: | | | First, a bounty has been posted here: | | http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html | | We aren't even asking for new code, per se - anyone merely posting a | recipe that allows linux-flashplayer9 to run, without crashing and with | reasonable performance, with a generic browser (opera, firefox, konqueror) | can claim the bounty. In fact, a recipe that is entirely inside the Linux | Binary Compatibility layer would be just fine - running the linux version | of a browser through binary compat is reasonable[1]. | | Second, I am calling on the FreeBSD Foundation to commit time and money to | ensuring that flash functionality is recognized as a high priority for | FreeBSD desktop use. I am willing to donate funds for this purpose. | Flash 9 will not be the baseline forever, and it is inefficient to ramp up | a grass roots bounty effort each time Adobe releases a new product. For | this reason I believe it is reasonable for the project itself to ensure | that Flash support is delivered and maintained in a timely fashion. | | | | [1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary | Compat anyway... | | | ----- | John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com - -- Pietro Cerutti gahr@FreeBSD.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkha1zsACgkQwMJqmJVx9470WgCg4APA6m3khgf4iIsrNAXcPbM/ Pr4An10QgMMM/Oalne+GGUzO/wha1HaX =2CKx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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