Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.
eculp
eculp at encontacto.net
Sun Mar 2 13:24:58 UTC 2008
Quoting Ezat - Ezatech <ezat at ezatech.com.au>:
>
> Ed,
> If flash is bothering you, its quite easy to just install the linux
> version of firefox on FreeBSD.
> Sabayon linux is a multimedia powerhouse. Definately needs some good
> spec hardware to run even after most of the xgl services have been
> disabled. The sabayon image is around 4.2GB which gives you an
> indication.
> Ezat.
Ezat, thanks for the suggestion and the heads up on needed resources.
I doubt it can be worse that Windows VISTA.
Are you able to use Flashplayer9 with linux firefox. My Flash 7 works
fine on both linux and freebsd firefox but I can not get Flash 9 to
run reliably. Hopefully, I am behind on the latest flash info on
FreeBSD.
Thanks,
ed
> eculp wrote:
>
> Quoting Mehul Ved [1]<mehul.n.ved at gmail.com>:
>
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:15 AM, eculp [2]<eculp at encontacto.net>
> wrote:
>
> My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before
> FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most
> versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple
> with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible
> but
> you never know.
>
> Maybe PC-BSD or Sabayon Linux. Sabayon is based on gentoo and
> contains
> lots of proprietory drivers built in. So, if you have no problem
> with that maybe
> you could look at Sabayon Linux too.
>
> I've never heard of Sabayon but will definitely give it a shot on
> my laptop first and take a good look at the licensing.
> I really like the idea of PC-BSD but the Flash thing, holds me back
> a bit.
> ed
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