From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 18:24:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA981065676 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:24:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A338FC1B for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id VAA27117; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:24:28 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4D9223DB.7010701@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:24:27 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110309 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Fleming References: <20110329013223.ddca7453.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> <1301419646.71335.123.camel@xenon> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:24:31 -0000 on 29/03/2011 20:51 Matthew Fleming said the following: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Michal Varga wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:43 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: >>> Desktop support is lacking when compared to the other major OSes >>> (Windows, Mac and Linux). >> >> Here too. How is "desktop support" on FreeBSD lacking? > > I realize a desktop means many things to many people, but the biggest > thing holding me back from using FreeBSD on a desktop is flash > support. I spent a little time trying to follow online instructions > and I didn't get anything working. Strange. I followed some instructions that I googled up and it was like "install these two ports and run that command" and everything worked. And still does :) (I think that it was www/linux-f10-flashplugin10, www/nspluginwrapper and running nspluginwrapper -v -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so as a user for which I enabled the plugin). -- Andriy Gapon