Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:15:27 -0500 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD Message-ID: <hihp4n$n8d$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20100112105155.GA2980@current.Sisis.de>
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Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based > desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. > some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. > I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to watch such sessions and it > would be good for me to overcome this situation. > I recently returned to using FreeBSD as a KDE 4 desktop after experimenting with various Linux incantations for a couple of years. I finally got tired of it. I had used KDE for years on FreeBSD, but it was always "the hard way". There may be different rough edges, but I've always been convinced that KDE largely runs better on FreeBSD, especially wrt to 8.0. Instead of a regular install and subsequent lots of time installing stuff this time I wanted to check out PCBSD. There are some things I'm not crazy about but for some reason or another they got Flash 10 working in Firefox right out of the box. I chose not to use their PIB packaging system for installing additional software that is not part of the default. I rebuilt the OS with the make buildworld, etc, dance so my kernel is half the size of theirs and chose to use portupgrade to manage keeping ports in line. Have been steadily installing stuff with ports and so far so good. I installed the beta 3 DVD they have released because I was mainly interested in FreeBSD 8 and the previous non-Beta is 7.x based. I only used it as a launch pad and then took over my own maintenance from there. Now for some reason or another I thought that when I tried the free 14 day test account that it was Java based. I don't know why this stuck in my mind at all. However, I am able to look at their Flash demo just fine. So it is is achievable on FreeBSD. -Mike
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