Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:29:26 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, speedydemon@shadowdev.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article Message-ID: <43BD2D46.5040502@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0601050608r2839367cpbbe1d9041f985b47@mail.gmail.com> References: <63553.67.101.81.97.1136391140.squirrel@webmail.shadowdev.org> <ef10de9a0601050608r2839367cpbbe1d9041f985b47@mail.gmail.com>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: >On 1/4/06, James Cornell <speedydemon@shadowdev.org> wrote: > > >>Hello. Long time FreeBSD user, new to the advocacy mailing list. I've >>written a nice article about desktop adoption elaborating on 4 solutions >>which need work on FreeBSD. (Java, Flash, Real, Acrobat) >> >>http://www.shadowdev.org/?p=24 >> >>This is an advocacy article, explaining that these titles are available, >>but require some degree of effort. All other needs are taken care of with >>FreeBSD via ports. >> >> >> > >I just read it... What are we going to do about it? Personally I'm >tired of sun java and I think I'm going to start weekly builds of java >1.5 for public download.... and don't get me started with Flash, I >can't even get that thing to install/working correctly, when it did >work it enjoyed crashing Firefox all the time... Has anyone tried some >type of petition to get a native version? > >never mind, I just made one so go sign it!!! >http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html > > I've signed it and posted it to a Hungarian open-source community, but I think it would be nice if somebody from the doc team can add it to the news on the website, so I cc'd freebsd-doc@, I hope this helps geting Adobe to release a working Flash for FreeBSD. Regards, Gabor Kovesdan
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