Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:46:09 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, james michael <jamesthefishy@gmail.com>, Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Bounties Message-ID: <200903061346.n26Dk9K5057916@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <D702FEB2-D790-46F1-AFE1-D1D0DAD31F15@ixsystems.com>
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Matt Olander wrote: > james michael wrote: > > I find this completely useless as a site. No one is going to get > > "flash 9 on freebsd with opera" for 200 dollars. I know people will > > want to add bounties to it and it will be like 250 then like 300 and > > as time passes it will be a million dollars or such but I don't > > think the problem is that people aren't willing to do the work, its > > that places like adobe has closed its software so that we can't > > really create anything. > > Actually, Flash9 on FreeBSD 7.x is working pretty good now with Linux > emulation. Unfortunately only with Firefox, and it's far from perfect. I tried to get Flash9 working the past few days with the latest RELENG_7 and the latest ports. This is on a UP i386 machine, so nothing special. - Native Opera: No go. It segfaults. - Linux Opera: Works somewhat, but hangs often, leaves lots of dead processes behind. Generally unusable. - Native Firefox3: Works most of the time. Problems with youtube (hangs quite often). Most other sites seem to work better. - Linux Firefox: Didn't try because the port is marked "forbidden" due to security issues. I definitely prefer Opera for normal browsing because it's faster and has more useful features, so I use it most of the time. I only start up Firefox when I need to visit a site that requires Flash, which doesn't happen too often, fortunately. Certainly, I wouldn't mind if someone improved the existing nspluginwrapper to work better with native Opera, or write a new software from scratch that enables using Flash with native Opera. I might even add to the Bounty, although I can't really afford more than a two-digit figure. But then again, if a sufficiently large number of people added a small amount to the bounty, it might become attractive enough for a developer to look at it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. -- Larry Wall
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