Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote:

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.

The Linux Webex client might work. http://support.webex.com/support/system-requirements.html says it'll run under Fedora 10, and linux_base-f10 works well.

Failing that, there's Wine. Firefox and the Flash plugin run under Wine. There are occasional graphic artifacts and Firefox windows want a double-click on the close gadget to actually close, but otherwise it works very well. Java also runs, although there it's not 100%. Maybe enough for Webex.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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