From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 19 18:23:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C24F37B401 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 18:23:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from probsd.org (ilm56-233-145.ec.rr.com [66.56.233.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD6A43E6A for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 18:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ms@probsd.org) Received: from probsd.org (probsd.org [192.168.1.4]) by probsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA53514759; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 21:29:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 192.168.1.4 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ms) by webmail.probsd.org with HTTP; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 21:29:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1160.192.168.1.4.1035077349.squirrel@webmail.probsd.org> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 21:29:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: How to use java, shockwave, etc..? From: "Michael Sharp" To: In-Reply-To: <20021020011228.93577.qmail@web21405.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021020011228.93577.qmail@web21405.mail.yahoo.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Elvis, If you can install /usr/ports/java/jdk13 , but you will have to manually download the source files, see the Makefile. Then you can install /usr/ports/www/mozilla and the Java SDK toolkit will be configured with it. You can also install plugger to get some extra plugin functionality. I believe thats in /usr/ports/www/. Michael > Hello all, > > I hope I'm asking a basic question. What should I do > to set up my FreeBSD desktop with a browser that > supports all (or at least most) linux plugins? > > I've had no luck with linux_base + linux-sun-jdk13, > for example, with linux-opera or linux-mozilla ports. > Using 4.7. > > Should I be using native browsers? If so, that means I > can't download Linux plugins from the net, right? > > I'm beginning to think I'm the only one on the planet > trying to use FreeBSD as a desktop machine. If this is > true, I'd appreciate some honest advice to switch to a > Linux distro, for example. I'm sticking with FreeBSD > just because I use it on servers and I love it, but > I'll switch if I have to. > > Any response appreciated, even if it's "whoa, i > wouldn't do what you're trying to do." > > Thanks! > > Elvis > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- GnuPG Key - http://probsd.org/michael.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message