From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 14:29:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7E016A420; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:29:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEAB43D5C; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:29:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D744099827A; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:29:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 65564-05-2; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:29:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from [80.98.231.227] (catv-5062e7e3.catv.broadband.hu [80.98.231.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178E899827C; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:29:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43BD2D46.5040502@t-hosting.hu> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:29:26 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <63553.67.101.81.97.1136391140.squirrel@webmail.shadowdev.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, speedydemon@shadowdev.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:29:40 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: >On 1/4/06, James Cornell wrote: > > >>Hello. Long time FreeBSD user, new to the advocacy mailing list. I've >>written a nice article about desktop adoption elaborating on 4 solutions >>which need work on FreeBSD. (Java, Flash, Real, Acrobat) >> >>http://www.shadowdev.org/?p=24 >> >>This is an advocacy article, explaining that these titles are available, >>but require some degree of effort. All other needs are taken care of with >>FreeBSD via ports. >> >> >> > >I just read it... What are we going to do about it? Personally I'm >tired of sun java and I think I'm going to start weekly builds of java >1.5 for public download.... and don't get me started with Flash, I >can't even get that thing to install/working correctly, when it did >work it enjoyed crashing Firefox all the time... Has anyone tried some >type of petition to get a native version? > >never mind, I just made one so go sign it!!! >http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html > > I've signed it and posted it to a Hungarian open-source community, but I think it would be nice if somebody from the doc team can add it to the news on the website, so I cc'd freebsd-doc@, I hope this helps geting Adobe to release a working Flash for FreeBSD. Regards, Gabor Kovesdan