Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:44:59 -0500 From: eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... Message-ID: <20080620104459.1393510x2w93m6ck@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <1213972236.1505.14.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <20080620083906.71332251xw1ckmu8@webmail.leidinger.net> <1213972236.1505.14.camel@scotth.emsphone.com>
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Quoting "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret@scotth.emsphone.com>: > > > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Quoting John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008 >> 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)): >> >> > First, a bounty has been posted here: >> > >> > http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html >> > >> > > Maybe the bounty would be better spent here, > > This was from an email on the gnome list from Joe Marcus Clarke =20 > <marcus@freebsd.org> > > "As to the point about Flash, Kris also mentioned that he has the ear of > someone at Adobe who was hinting that a capable developer willing to > sign an NDA could be given code to work on a native Flash plug-in port. > This could bode well for PC-BSD and FreeBSD should someone step up to > do this work." > It would seem ideal to have a freebsd person with access to adobe code =20 and should facilitate future flash ports. I would join in with $100 (dollars I suppose) from my paypal account. =20 The only place I have dollars available. That would bring it up to =20 $300 and should help future development. my .02 worth, ed PS IIRC, someone sent a link to a howto to get flash9 working on =20 current i386 at most a couple of weeks ago on one of the lists. I =20 can't find the link. If someone has it I would appreciate your =20 sending it to test it out. > >> From the site: >> ---snip--- >> I will pay $200 to whoever can compose a working and stable recipe for >> running Adobe Flash 9 inside of the FreeBSD native version of Opera 9 >> on FreeBSD 6.x. This shouldn't be that hard - in fact, there is >> already a linux-flashplugin9 port. >> ---snip--- >> >> Comments from other people with some more money not included here... >> >> And now the sad reality check: linux-flashplugin9 will _never_ work on >> 6.x (lack of linux 2.6 emulation, and this is not a MFC candidate). >> >> Getting it to work on 7.x is possible. "All what you need" is >> nspluginwrapper to get it running in the native >> firefox/opera/whatever, and someone who is willing to debug the >> linuxulator (on -current, as there is a more complete 2.6 >> compatibility there, and this can be MFCed to 7.x) and find the >> bug/problem which is causing the crashes. Whoever is willing to tackle >> this: head over to emulation@ (CCed) and ask what debugging >> possibilities we have in the linuxulator. >> >> Note: AFAIK linux-flashplugin9 is not completely stable on linux either..= . >> >> Bye, >> Alexander. >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" >
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