From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 14:40:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3451065670 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:40:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BB98FC0C for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 25so782292eya.9 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:40:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.108.65 with SMTP id e1mr1637283ebp.47.1276699212306; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.12.199 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:40:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.203.38.83] In-Reply-To: <20100616145325.13162e0a@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20100615211740.GA50967@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100615154956.cfz6ip454w8gcco4@mail.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <07A440BE-D29A-44CA-9F2D-16D1314A8B24@mac.com> <20100615161147.j4gokl7rk8sgwssw@mail.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <20100616145325.13162e0a@gumby.homeunix.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:40:12 +0200 Message-ID: From: "C. P. Ghost" To: RW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: concerning flash under freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:40:14 -0000 On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:53 PM, RW wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:04:00 +0200 > "C. P. Ghost" wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training >> wrote: >> > I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it >> > would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going >> > right now to do so. >> >> Good luck with that. Adobe doesn't care about FreeBSD. Never did, >> and probably never will. They don't even care about 64-bit Linux >> users... >> >> If you absolutely need Flash on FreeBSD, I'd suggest you install >> VirtualBox, and inside VirtualBox a Flash-supported OS, like >> OpenSolaris (that's what I do when I absolutely need Flash support). > > Windows Flash+Firefox under Wine works for me, I installed it when > FreeBSD Flash was completely broken. I've never gone back because the > inconvenience =A0of occasionally having to switch browsers, is not as bad > as having flash all the time. Ah, good to know. I'm using FreeBSD/amd64, that's why I didn't think of Wine (IIRC, it's only for i386). -cpghost. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/