watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based
> desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e.
> some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required.
> I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to watch such sessions and it
> would be good for me to overcome this situation.

The Linux Webex client might work. 
http://support.webex.com/support/system-requirements.html says it'll run 
under Fedora 10, and linux_base-f10 works well.

Failing that, there's Wine.  Firefox and the Flash plugin run under 
Wine.  There are occasional graphic artifacts and Firefox windows want a 
double-click on the close gadget to actually close, but otherwise it 
works very well. Java also runs, although there it's not 100%.  Maybe 
enough for Webex.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA