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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:42:18 +0100
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        Pongthep Kulkrisada <ptkrisada@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Flash viewer for FBSD
Message-ID:  <d74eb87c1003050842q29e69eb9k561517f077e7bb1f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada <ptkrisada@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or the problem is that I cvsup(ed) from 7.1 to 7.2 and then csup(ed) to 8.0.

If you csup, you update only /usr/src (or /usr/ports). Have you actually
updated the system and the ports as well?

> FBSD should make it simpler than this.

It should. But what can we do if Adobe doesn't even acknowledge our
existence and refuses to provide a FreeBSD version of their Flash
player?

> Some Linux distros, flash plug-ins are installed in default configuration.
> But I shall not go back to Linux, anyway. :-)

Sure, Linux has a bigger market share, so they get enough love from
Adobe... though I understand that Flash support for Linux/x86-64 isn't
all that good either (?).

> Actually, I only want to study Unix console, C language and some administrations.
> In GUI world, I only want to point and click.

As said, if all else breaks, try running OpenSolaris (or a Linux distro)
as a guest OS inside VirtualBox. This way, you have the best of both
worlds.

> Thanks,
> Pongthep

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