From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K9L17-0001GW-Tw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:21:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 750BFE0485; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ercbroadband.org (mail.ercbroadband.org [152.53.1.9]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42932E0485 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:21:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) Exchange SpamAssassin Sink (www.christopherlewis.com) 1.2.76 on chapman.ercbroadband.local X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=7.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 thread-index: AcjSF7q9QZgp3FlHQDuYyHYt418brw== Received: from [192.168.10.35] ([192.168.10.35] RDNS failed) by mail.ercbroadband.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:21:10 -0400 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4133 Message-ID: <485A6B55.3050308@ercbroadband.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:21:09 -0400 From: "Mark Haney" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080619) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Obligatory FF3 question. References: <4858FC28.3050006@ercbroadband.org> <485908FF.9090600@cesmail.net> <48591683.7060705@ercbroadband.org> <48592D27.2080506@ercbroadband.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Jun 2008 14:21:10.0758 (UTC) FILETIME=[B8DC3860:01C8D217] X-Archives-Salt: 883f5ecc-36c2-4d49-a0dd-013773646a3a X-Archives-Hash: 35c242de3d6b2fa502573b0dd56883d9 Beso wrote: > 2008/6/18 Mark Haney : > >> Beso wrote: >> >>> 2008/6/18 Mark Haney : >>> >>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >>>> Mark Haney wrote: >>>>> So, how's it working? Anyone emerged it yet? >>>>>> The binary is working ... the mirrors are hosed on the source version, >>>>>> >>>>> though. They have the binary version and the checksums don't match. >>>>> >>>>> I was able to get good source. It built and it absolutely hauls the >>>> proverbial ass. >>>> >>>> >>> have you tried it with the new gnash plugin and the new icedtea (the free >>> openjdk java plugin that seems to be compatible at 90% with java6 ) on >>> amd64 >>> arch? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> No I haven't. How is it? >> >> > well, icedtea, from the latest news in my possession has merged with openjdk > ad java plugin and it supports nearly 90% of java around (this means that > there's no need for a 32bit wrapper for java with firefox). > gnash is now fully compatible with flash v7 and has about 50% of flash 8 and > 9 serie. now with the opening of the flash format specifications gnash > should progress much faster than it was before. for example i've read that > with firefox 2 with gnash and java youtube (usually a quite bad site for > flash players and which has also some java code included, for my knowledge) > is playing well (more than 85% of videos work well and the remnants just > need to use the gnash controls to work). > but as i've said, i haven't tried it yet so i don't know if these assertions > are reallly true. > > Well, I was going to try icedtea just to see how it worked, and I wanted to not have to spend a lot of time installing/configuring. There's a HOWTO page for icedtea, but the libre_java_overlay mentioned isn't there now. Is there another way to automate the install? -- Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list