how to test for linux base version? (googleearth)

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Sun Oct 18 20:09:39 UTC 2009


> From: Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de>
> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:41:57 +0200
> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org
> 
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 02:30:43PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> writes:
> > 
> > > I just got reminded to add a linux base version check to astro/google-earth
> > > (It now needs recent linux libstdc++.so.6 with GLIBCXX_3.4.9 that only
> > > is in f9 or f10, you can do
> > 
> > First of, I'd recommend leaving f9 alone (I'm going to deprecate all
> > linux base ports except fc4 and f10 soon).
> > 
> Ah Ok.  (Does f10 work well enough on 7.x yet?)

It works pretty well with 7.2. I have heard that it might not with 7.1,
but I don't have any 7.1 systems, so that is hear-say. My 7.2 system
does Flash and Skype fine. I think it might do RealPlayer, but I'm not
completely sure on that. (It works on 8.0, though.)
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