status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

[Sean C. Farley]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Marc Fonvieille wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:22:47PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
>>
>> Well, as for fc4 ports, Fedora Core 4 is unmaintained for a long time 
>> and there is no hope to get an updated version.  The same seems to 
>> happen with f8 port.
>
> This is annoying cause it means default linux_base under 7.X is a "no 
> way" in future: I mean when some linux apps will be updated people 
> using 7.X and default linux_base may face up to issues.  And on 
> another hand I understood that some missing sysctl calls etc. prevents 
> the switch to f10 under 7.X.  So what is the good solution for the 
> future?

I think at some point (MFC) after 7.2-RELEASE 7.x began working well 
enough to use F10 as the base.  At least, GoogleEarth, UT99, Skype, 
Adobe Reader 8 (nspluginwrapper and standalone) and Flash 
(nspluginwrapper) work for me.  There are some missing system calls, but 
I am not sure what applications will have trouble (not work as opposed 
to make warnings) without them.

Sean
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