Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

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John Kozubik wrote:
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| Don't shoot the messenger:
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| FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to
| support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.

gnash-devel provides flash 9 and works pretty well...

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| Running IE in Wine is not a solution.
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| Running another OS in vmware to simply browse the web is not a solution.
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| Free flash alternatives and flash movie players, etc., are, unfortunately,
| not a solution.
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| ports/linux-flashplayer9 _is_ a solution, however it (currently) fails
| badly.
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| Solution:
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| First, a bounty has been posted here:
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| http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
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| We aren't even asking for new code, per se - anyone merely posting a
| recipe that allows linux-flashplayer9 to run, without crashing and with
| reasonable performance, with a generic browser (opera, firefox, konqueror)
| can claim the bounty. In fact, a recipe that is entirely inside the Linux
| Binary Compatibility layer would be just fine - running the linux version
| of a browser through binary compat is reasonable[1].
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| Second, I am calling on the FreeBSD Foundation to commit time and money to
| ensuring that flash functionality is recognized as a high priority for
| FreeBSD desktop use. I am willing to donate funds for this purpose.
| Flash 9 will not be the baseline forever, and it is inefficient to ramp up
| a grass roots bounty effort each time Adobe releases a new product. For
| this reason I believe it is reasonable for the project itself to ensure
| that Flash support is delivered and maintained in a timely fashion.
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| [1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary
| Compat anyway...
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|
| -----
| John Kozubik - john@xxxxxxxxxxx - http://www.kozubik.com


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