Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 00:12:33 +0700 From: Pongthep Kulkrisada <ptkrisada@gmail.com> To: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash viewer for FBSD Message-ID: <20100305171233.GB1500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d74eb87c1003050842q29e69eb9k561517f077e7bb1f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100305051415.GA1847@gmail.com> <20100305065837.660d3ebd.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100305110049.GA10715@gmail.com> <BLU0-SMTP204A23AA4CAF80798AA138DC380@phx.gbl> <20100305161210.GA46349@gmail.com> <d74eb87c1003050842q29e69eb9k561517f077e7bb1f@mail.gmail.com>
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* C. P. Ghost (cpghost@cordula.ws) wrote: > If you csup, you update only /usr/src (or /usr/ports). Have you actually > updated the system and the ports as well? % uname -a FreeBSD bsdhost.localdomain 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Dec 1 19:12:37 ICT 2009 root@bsdhost.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 But port tree is very large. I only update the followings. ports-base ports-archivers ports-audio ports-devel ports-dns ports-editors ports-emulators ports-ftp ports-graphics ports-lang ports-mail ports-misc ports-net ports-security ports-sysutils ports-www I reinstall only some ports, which I considerd important. > 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? Sad... > 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 (?). They will tend to FreeBSD some day, much better. IMHO, the best OS is FreeBSD. The best OS with GUI is OS-X. Both are BSDs. > 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. I don't want to. Even now I have 2 OSes installed, I still hate it. In fact, 90% I boot of FreeBSD (at home). Thanks, Pongthep
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