What is the recommended LinuxEmulator and kernel that will run skype-devel and maybe Flash9

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting linimon at lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) (Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:56:31 -0500):

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:29:15AM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > On another note, skype-1.4.0.118 also requires linux_dri on amd64 as 
> > will the new version. I see that it's flagged only_for_archs= i386. I 
> > have verified (so has skype) that it works fine on FreeBSD amd64.
> > Can we unflag linux_dri so we're not excluding those users?
> 
> I vaguely recall some discussion about doing that but it being held
> off until post-freeze.  The question was, once we unflag linux_dri,
> does that suddenly enable a bunch of ports to try to be built on
> amd64 that we weren't expecting before?  If so, someone(TM) needs
> to track that so it's not a surprise on the next amd64 package build.

It can only enable binary ports (linux ones). As those are mostly i386
RPMs which get extracted, I don't expect any problems (they are already
tested for the i386 package builds). At least regarding normal linux
ports. I can not comment on some special requirements of some games, but
if there's more than a handful of I'm willing to spend s weekend to try
to fix the problems. Beech, Boris, are you willing to help out if there
are some problems?

Bye,
Alexander.

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