On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2006-08-20 15:46, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, at 16:25:21 -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
On 8/20/06, Don Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The next release of Adobe flash developer will have a revised
license which will include FreeBSD. This was per the product
manager.
License is not the most important. What is important for the end user
is having a native version of his own operating system :)
Agreed.
I read this last month:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/07/api_review.html
The using ALSA for sound in version 9 doesn't sound very good for
getting it to work on FreeBSD even if/when the license allows it. I
don't understand why it's so hard for them to make it compatible with
more OSes. They are in the business of selling software to create
content in their proprietary Flash format, but if that can't be viewed
on every common OS, then I think/know developers will not develop
exclusively in Flash as much.
I'm probably stating the blatantly obvious, but the trick is how we can
convince them that FreeBSD is a "common OS", I guess :)
That is why I wrote up and setup bsdstats.org ... see
/usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats ... get included ... the idea is to get
continuous, monthly numbers on deployments of FreeBSD, what versions are
in use, what architectures ... and, if you so desire to add it, what
hardware is in use also ...
It started as an attempt to get numbers for hardware vendors to show that
porting drivers to us is 'a good market', but it definitely applies to
anything else ... showing realistic numbers to show that we are a "common
OS" and not a hobbiest OS ...
This is *not* a short term project though ... there are 5-10 new hosts
being added daily, but "it had to start somewhere" ...
Please note that alot of work was done with ppl on -questions to reduce
the security implications of this script, to the point that we don't store
anything in the database that could be traced back to a specific machine
(ie. no IP, no hostname) ... *and* we taken steps to try and mitigate
'fakers' ... no way to eliminate them completely, but our hope is that as
the numbers get higher, the %age of 'fakers' will drop to a neglible
amount ...
See http://www.bsdstats.org for current results ...
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