From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 07:30:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686811065687 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:30:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: from smtp121.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp121.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.64.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33BEE8FC15 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:30:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: (qmail 41163 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2008 07:03:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO client-179.nat.ixsystems.net) (syndivision@att.net@206.40.55.65 with plain) by smtp121.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Jun 2008 07:03:42 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 2czvuloVM1nfBwCxGO57TNT.23qx5AWwtxGU.Jc5a5MGBxb_PqzDDnp0F8u8_TXRUsRBt4NsFmOaHeeDZ7QBqlmr22rPIWDIXONSxnDBdTHjEQdBgG1bjdCvxduToSU- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-Id: <7E111F3D-4C41-4584-A0B0-62CDD4F3A0F2@ixsystems.com> From: Matt Olander To: "Murray Stokely" In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0806200001wd8da70dh20441d9504259ce4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:03:41 -0700 References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <20080620045912.GI22907@redundancy.redundancy.org> <2a7894eb0806200001wd8da70dh20441d9504259ce4@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "David E. Thiel" Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:30:23 -0000 On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:01 AM, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:59 PM, David E. Thiel > wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: >>> FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability >>> to >>> support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion. >> >> Nonsense. This presumes anything "useful" has ever been written in >> flash. > > Believe it or not, there is useful content on the web in Flash : > > Google [Flash filetype:swf site:nasa.gov] > (without the brackets). Yeah, seriously! Never mind all the video content I am desperate to view on Hulu! ;-) I think my latest Rosetta Stone is Flash9 now too :'( -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop! http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax: (408)943-4101