FreeBSD as a Desktop Article

[Kövesdán Gábor]

Nikolas Britton wrote:

>On 1/4/06, James Cornell <speedydemon at shadowdev.org> wrote:
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>>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)
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>>http://www.shadowdev.org/?p=24
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>>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.
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>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?
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>never mind, I just made one so go sign it!!!
>http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html
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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