Flash Player 9 for Linux
Emmy Huang, Product Manager for Flash Player at Adobe, announced the Adobe is developing Flash Player 9 for Linux. First heard about this in the Ubuntu forums in this thread.
This is big news, since Linux users are missing out presently on content made for Flash 8. Granted, it’s not due out till late this year or early next, but it’s an important step in the right direction for Linux support—notably, this will be released when the rest of the population (Windows, Mac) sees it, instead of lagging months behind on half-assed development.
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Carson Says:
June 1st, 2006 at 10:01:31I’m pleased and a little suprised to hear this, as apparently I missed it elsewhere. When Adobe bought Macromedia, I had problems downloading Flash 7 for Linux–the download page was there, but the server hosting the tarball was no longer in DNS.
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Michael Says:
June 6th, 2006 at 00:11:52Yes, the only tempering factor here is that we’ll have to wait till likely January of next year, but it’s progress, no?
June 1st, 2006 at 10:01:31
I’m pleased and a little suprised to hear this, as apparently I missed it elsewhere. When Adobe bought Macromedia, I had problems downloading Flash 7 for Linux–the download page was there, but the server hosting the tarball was no longer in DNS.
June 6th, 2006 at 00:11:52
Yes, the only tempering factor here is that we’ll have to wait till likely January of next year, but it’s progress, no?