OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21034/Haiku_Gets_Flash Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 05:50:37 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com So tell me please http://www.osnews.com/thread?350588 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350588 which operating system exactly supports Flash? Can't tell one from the top of my head? Except if by "operating system" you mean something else. And "OSnews" means news about ... something else. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (marafaka) Comments RE: So tell me please http://www.osnews.com/thread?350594 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350594
which operating system exactly supports Flash? Can't tell one from the top of my head? Except if by "operating system" you mean something else. And "OSnews" means news about ... something else.


WTF? An operating system provides support for the applications that run on it. There are a number of operating systems that support programs that process flash files.

*feeds the trolls* Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jessta) Comments RE[2]: So tell me please http://www.osnews.com/thread?350599 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350599 Exactly, all of them ;)

If you didn't get my hint I'll make it very obvious: http://www.fsdaily.com/ Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (marafaka) Comments Undecided. http://www.osnews.com/thread?350606 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350606 I can't decide myself: should I congratulate Adrian or should I cry in despair (another Flash-hater BeOS-user here)?

I think I'll do both. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BiPolar) Comments RE: Undecided. http://www.osnews.com/thread?350618 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350618 Well definately I think congratulations are in order. Personal dislike aside, Flash support is something users generally expects these days. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Valhalla) Comments RE[2]: Undecided. http://www.osnews.com/thread?350623 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350623 Actually, the true problem is that flash support is something that webmasters expect nowadays.

I feel that other formats are worse/more evil. Realplayer was more evil than flash, or imagine if ActiveX had really gained widespread usage on the web as Microsoft originally intended, or think of all those radio stations which offer their content only in WMA or RealAudio...Edited 2009-02-25 14:05 UTC Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yahya) Comments Freakin' sweet http://www.osnews.com/thread?350633 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350633 Once the Mozilla plugin is done, I can see myself using Haiku as my main OS since it will have everything I need to be productive. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twm_bucket) Comments RE: Freakin' sweet http://www.osnews.com/thread?350650 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350650 A web browser and flash?








J/K!! And, I love Haiku. (Seriously, I do). Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments Flash not needed http://www.osnews.com/thread?350661 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350661 First, that looks like it was a lot of work to get working. Well done.

Personally, I have been abale to avoid having to use any site that requires Flash to work.

YouTube in particular, I use the Firefox media plugins to point out the direct location of the .FLV files and download them to my machine to play using VLC, and also lets me play them off-line. (This is very useful on days that the internet access seems to be running a little slow).

Still if this does help my get access to CrunchyRoll it will be worth it to me. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Earl Colby pottinger) Comments RE: Freakin' sweet http://www.osnews.com/thread?350662 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350662
Once the Mozilla plugin is done, I can see myself using Haiku as my main OS since it will have everything I need to not be productive.


Fixed your sentance for you. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TQH !) Comments RE[2]: Freakin' sweet http://www.osnews.com/thread?350666 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350666 I would like to give you a +1 (Funny), specially since I don't see why you got a -1, but I'm unable to do so, as I had already posted a comment.

(weird mod limitation). Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BiPolar) Comments Excellent news http://www.osnews.com/thread?350667 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350667 It’s nice to see the headway that Haiku is making I tried the latest Senryu release and I have to say I like what I see so far. I am looking forward to being able to install it on a machine as drivers mature. I already have a BeOS and Zeta machines that I use all the time. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JPisini) Comments Is it gcc4 only? http://www.osnews.com/thread?350677 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350677 I should know this, but I don't: Does this require gcc4-built Haiku currently?

I'm guessing it does based on some previous discussions about Boost, etc., but then I'm not sure...

Looking through the notes, looks like 20+ package dependencies ported in order to build gnash? damn... go on a diet or something. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments RE: Is it gcc4 only? http://www.osnews.com/thread?350753 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350753 From the download page:
"All these files require a Haiku-gcc4 or hybrid build." Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smitty) Comments Big binary! http://www.osnews.com/thread?350769 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350769 Woa! 135MB! I believe that pretty much doubles the size of your Haiku distro sans Gnash. Recent Haiku pre-alpha images with BeZilla and some smaller apps is about 100MB, packed. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (matako) Comments RE[3]: Freakin' sweet http://www.osnews.com/thread?350776 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350776 Yes, and no hamsters was harmed in posting that comment. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TQH !) Comments Awesome! http://www.osnews.com/thread?350820 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350820 This is very good news indeed. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (motang) Comments BeOS http://www.osnews.com/thread?350882 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350882 BeOS had a thirdparty flash player that worked fine at the time, what happened with that? (superseded probably) Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gfx1) Comments RE: BeOS http://www.osnews.com/thread?350889 http://www.osnews.com/thread?350889
BeOS had a thirdparty flash player that worked fine at the time, what happened with that? (superseded probably)


You're referring to this: http://www.bebits.com/app/1214

It was released by The General Coffee Company Film Productions who obtained a license from Adobe to redistribute a port of Flash Player for BeOS. I'm guessing the license to redistribute actually cost them some money, not to mention the effort spent to port Flash Player in the first place.

I'm not even sure that Adobe licenses these types of projects any longer, and if they do, I'm not sure there's a single person/company interested in paying the necessary license fees to port Flash Player to Haiku.

I have to imagine the original ported code is gone and/or useless at this point. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments