Saturday, November 21, 2009

No Flash for FreeBSD, using Fedora

I could not figure out a way to get around the lack of availability of Adobe Flash for FreeBSD. Suggestions were to use Gnash, swfdec, or to use the Linux version of Adobe Flash Player with FreeBSD. I installed Gnash and swfdec but couldn't figure out how to plug them into Firefox, and I wasn't sure about using the Adobe Flash Player for Linux with FreeBSD. Adobe.com didn't want to help me to that, certainly.

I had tried Red Hat Linux before the time of Fedora Core. I tried Fedora Core 4 and 5 and even had Fedora Core 5 joined to the Active Directory domain at work using samba. I grabbed Fedora 11 and recently upgraded to Fedora 12. Adobe Flash Player installs from get.adobe.com/flashplayer onto Firefox easily. I use Firefox on Windows alternatingly with Internet Explorer, and I'm a fan.

I remember using BBSs, then CompuServe, AOL, and Prodigy, then Mosaic (I remember SPRY Mosaic), then Netscape. I was in public school at the time when Netscape was for charge, but you could get a free copy as a student.

To recover from that digression, I am now using Fedora 12.

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