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Flash 7 for Linux Released
molarmass192 writes "Looks like Macromedia has finally made good on their word and provided Linux with a current version of Flash player. Improvements over Flash 6 include a speed boost and support for SOAP. Here's the requisite download link. I took a few seconds to get it set up and the response is noticeably snappier than version 6. In particular, the audio/video sync problems in version 6 seems to have been taken care of. Now, I wonder where they hid that Shockwave player for Linux?"
Looks like those Linux users finally get all the fun.
... they'd release the authoring tool in a Linux version?
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
Now, I wonder where they hid that Shockwave player for Linux?
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One can only hope that other companies realize the benefits of releasing products for the Linux platform.
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It's also available as packages for all major distributions from here..
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
The context-sensitive menus in the Flash plug-in on ALL platforms seem to have some major issues. You right-click over a Flash animation in a Web page, and sometimes you get the ability to change the quality... sometimes you don't. Sometimes, all you get is a useless "options" screen that lets you change things like microphone volume and camera (!!!???) settings, but not things like, oh, speaker volume or video quality. I've seen this problem in Mozilla for Linux and in IE for Windows. WTF up with that?
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Tried the install package on SuSe 9.0 and works like a charm. The only drawback is that the user needs to know where their mozilla/firefox is installed. Works noticably faster than before (I also have the feeling that it eats much less CPU time). Next improvement: no flash at all! ;-)
Here are some cool flash games with our favorite bird:
http://yeti.e-medien.com/e_playonline.php#
Have fun
By chance I downloaded the newest version as I was reinstalling everything else too. But it still has "jerks" whenever I play a flash game. My slower windows box doesn't have this problem. The problem is reproducible on all three of my linux machines, no matter the processor speed. It makes it especially difficult to play a game like this since there are unexpected jerks in movement.
Flash 7 for Linux Released I almost jumped in joy thinking that Flash will be released natively for Linux. Flash is the application itself, Flash player is the standalone player and web browser plugin. Oh well.
Now that is a great first step. Now once we get Dreamweaver, I can deploy Linux to all of our developers. Let's face it guys, Dreamweaver pays for itself (depending on usage, and in my case) after about 3 weeks. Mozilla composer and Quanta pretty much suck. Composer can't support frames, and Quanta, well, do I really need to go there??
I guess, in summary, HURRY UP with Dreamweaver!!!
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Where is my PPC flash player? Where oh where is it!?!
Does it finally exist? I do so hope....
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now only if others would follow their footsteps, come on AOL, please release a real version of AIM, not that gtk1 POS, and come on Apple release iTunes for linux! Oh well thank god for wine..
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No PPC version again I fear. At least I couldn't find it.
Bummer!
I've had many emails passed back and forth with Macromedia tech support .. there are versions for most Unix implementations, and MacOS 9 and X .. but not for Linux/PPC *sigh* .. it wouldn't be that difficult to run just one more compile, would it ?
..and boy is it ugly! ;)
props to Macromedia on this one.
It's made it through (currently) six repetitions of Badgers with excellent synchronization (as opposed to version 6 not even making one). Hell, everything's so crisp and fluid... it's beyond further words.
Has anyone tried this speedup trick in other distro's? I doubt that it's Gentoo specific:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=176167
The gist of it is setting an environment var:
export FLASH_GTK_LIBRARY=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
People in the Gentoo forum are claming massive speed increases when viewing flash. I'm about to go try it now...
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It's nice to see companies supporting Linux, but unfortunately I can't use it until they make a amd64-version since 64-bit browsers can't use 32-bit plugins..
The Linux kernel can run 32-bit code but can't link to 64-bit code so to have a 32-bit browser I'd have to also have 32-bit versions of all the libraries it depends on, and their dependancies, all the way down to glibc and ld.so.. Not worth it.
Is it possible to run isolated 32-bit code inside a 64-bit program? Something like an exec32() libc-function or something? To make 64-bit Mozilla run Flash and make 64-bit MPlayer load win32-codecs.. I'm sure you'll have to make some kind of wrapper-code to convert int-sizes etc when sending/getting data from/to the library, but would it be possible at all?
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The parent poster has an excellent point. If these developers write quality code, and I have no reason to suspect that they do not, why not drop a few hundred bucks on a single PPC box that you can start a GCC make on, and let it run for a week if need be?
At the very least, you would have an excellent testbed. AND, IIRC, the US Navy is moving to PPC/Linux. Imagine the wargames... Flash/Shockwave Battleship!!!
Macromedia Sales: Would that not make it WAY easier to land a HUGE contract with the Defense Dept?
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And the Linux/Arm one ? And the Linux/alpha one ? etc.
This is the proprietary magic : you just don't have the control or the possibility to see them come unless Macromedia themselves choose to release one.
A simple and good reason not to use neither encourage or support this kind of proprietary, non-standard format.
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Will this break my Flashblock extention for Firefox, if I install it?
This could of course just be me but it seems that the sync of video/audio is still not exactly right. I tested it by running this clip http://www.cybermoonstudios.com/8bitDandD.html but alas it didn't work. perhaps I should remove the v.6 plugin first. Oh well.
It's not the player, the authors intentionally disable that functionality. Hence, getting rid of the ability to do so would be alienating their developer customer base.
Engaging in such practices usually mandates a buyout by Microsoft beforehand.
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Nothing to wonder even if they(Macromedia) starts to work with FireFox floks for doing something beyond the plugin stff. The technology landscape is changing!
This trick is no longer needed after upgrading to version 7. The plugin will work fine with both gtk1 and gtk2 version of Mozilla / Firefox.
Why would you want it?
Flash is internet pollution. (X)HTML is lighter-weight and thus faster, more accessible for people with disabilities, and just generally less crap. Plus, Google can tell you about the content of (X)HTML pages, but nothing, from Google to grep, can parse the content of a Flash movie. Flash has a nice little niche for silly animations and games, but it has become a cancer on the web as a navigation and content-presentation interface. An increase in its reach isn't something to celebrate.
Now seems a good time to introduce flashblock. Very ironic, isn't it?
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oh wait, there's a fucking shit ton of sites that use it.
other than that, i don't know why you'd want flash.
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This is one of the few times you'll hear me honestly ask "is it open source?" I ask because I would love to see an IRIX version of this for my Silicon Graphics Octane workstation, and I know it's not going to happen otherwise. The IRIX world is stick at version 5 with few alternatives.
Yeah, yeah, I know, flash sucks. But sometimes you need to have it to visit certain sites. Sure beats having to fire up my PC just o look at the newest movie site.
And yes, SGIs are oldschool. But Octanes are pretty cheap on eBay and are becoming common with we hardware collectors (if you're not that type, you probably know one... house full of computers with at least one working Amiga and probably a NeXT cube too). And it makes for a great main workstation!
"Looks like Macromedia has finally made good on their word and provided Linux"
GNU/Linux works on various platforms although the x86 port is the most common. I don't see x86 anywhere in the announcement, do you? If we had the source we had the freedom to compile it on any arch and OS we wanted to. A proprietary software package isn't a contribution to us if our goal is freedom.
It is the problem with non-free software.
Flash is a lead lined cudgel with which talentless unfunny people can flesh out their poorly designed and impossible-to-navigate websites. (or, if they're really talentless, they just ship them off to sites like newgrounds.com) I have personally lost count of the number of times I've had my browsing experience ruined by an annoying as hell flash banner ad spawning in the middle of my screen, or a homepage so slowed and crippled by flash that I left and never returned.
Of course this isn't the only problem, trolls such as the GNAA are known to use this in their browser crashing Shock Sites. Which force users of MSIE to end the entire process to stop the endlessly respawning windows. And this is just the tip of an iceberg of security issues.
As a result of this (and this "last measure" especially) I decided to abandon windows altogether and become another convert to *nix. So I think you can forgive me for not celebrating the porting of this pesterware to Linux, nor will I be letting it anywhere near my linux box. Regular banner ads are annoying enough thank you.
Why must we download this sort of proprietary crud just to view webpages? What benefit does Macromedia gain from hiding the source to Flash from its users? How would we view flash pages if Macromedia went bankrupt tomorrow and you couldn't download the player anymore? (The EULA states that only Macromedia and their partners can distribute the player.) Why to we tolerate this sort of closed-source code, with who knows how many security vulnerabilities, running (I believe their installer runs as root?) on our Linux systems?
I flat out refuse to download Flash until Macromedia releases the source code. Any site that relies on such proprietary software is not a site I want to do business with or use as a source of reliable information. If you care about Free software, I urge you to do the same, and refuse to install Flash until the source code is released.
Oh dear, this is really stupid. This is the typical idiocy of free as in herpes software.
Mozilla with flash player 7.0 opens the flash animations, in the same way as it used to do with flash player 6.0. I could'nt find any difference with the new plugin. If somebody could tell me a way to find the difference, it would be great.
Previously my flash experience on every distro was in a form of a slide show. Now that everything works like it is supposed to, I can only say that v.7 is worthy upgrade.
Cool tip, thanks!
BTW, how does Flash 7 compare to Flash 5 and 6 in terms of performance on older hardware?
http://macromedia.rediris.es/site_ri.html
Just toss those two files into /usr/lib/browser-plugins and away you go.
Works fine with Mozilla, Firefox, also.
Didn't test it with Epiphany etc.
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ARG... Still no 64bit release... this is really anoying.. If I want to use 64bit native browser I can't have flash... grrr...
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Hell still crashes firefox.
*sigh* I was hoping 7.x would fix that.
No, I did not read the f***ing article!
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In your haste to rant about how much you hate everyone else on then Intarweb, you've missed or ignored a pretty major point: Flash is just a tool. How about this:
HTML is a lead lined cudgel with which talentless unfunny people can create their poorly designed and impossible-to-navigate websites. (or, if they're really talentless, they just ship them off to sites like geocities.com) I have personally lost count of the number of times I've had my browsing experience ruined by an annoying as hell animated gif banner ad spawning in the middle of my screen, or a homepage so slowed and crippled by dynamic HTML that I left and never returned.
I suspect most of us would agree with that to an extent, but we don't vow never to look at a webpage again.
Some Flash is very good. Deal with it, move on, use the appropriate browser/plugin to make Flash content optional.
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Sometimes I just want to wget a swf file and view it at a later time.
Of course, it could be I'm missing the point here, and that Flash needs to be a proprietary format for it's business model to work.
(Pretend for a minute that Flash was the bright idea of some other company that begins with an "M"... how would you feel about it?)
I agree, flash like java and javascript is just another BIG security hole waiting to be exploited.
You people will not stop being stupid, so don't complain when the internet is brought down because you were STUPID!
Friends don't let friends use Flash.
Someone hates these cans.
I wonder where I can try that out... It seems that in the past few months I have adblock'ed all flashes on the sites I usually visit :)
I flat out refuse to download Flash until Macromedia releases the source code
Having the source code available would not suddenly make Flash a useful technology.
Flash is anti-useful.
It is an excuse for web developers to use eye-candy instead of content (as if they needed one) on their sites. And so continues the gradual and complete dilution of useful content on the internet. The bonus is that it is an effective way of marking a site 'useless' during long and painful web searches.
Future Wine support is a monstrous idea. Releasing a version for Linux makes business sense, but are people seriously considering running Wine just to browse the internet?
I allow for exceptions, but I have seen very few sites which actually use Flash to present useful content in a sensible way. This would, unfortunately, force me to use it. I have seen none recently, because I don't use the plug-in. I flat out refuse.
Is there a free software SWF player for Firefox that will play fairly modern stuff? ie. Can I watch H*R whilst retaining my freedom?
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Why would you want it?
Because I happen to enjoy silly animations and games.
You say that as if there is something wrong with enjoying 'silly animations and games'. I do. So do many other people.
It may also be inaccessible, but every day people enjoy things that aren't globally accessible, from various forms of media and art to sports and recreation. How do you make animation accessible to those with vision difficulties?
One could write a story instead, but then you have something totally different. Hypertext has been around for decades, and text itself for millennia, and they serve their purpose. Animation serves another.
There will always be people who choose a poor method of presenting their content on the web. Even without Flash, it's still possible to have poorly-navigable sites with too many fonts, and garish colours, et cetera.
The way to solve it is not to discourage the use of Flash, as if it were inherently wrong, but to encourage and show examples of good design and presentation when Flash is not called for.
This may be a niche, but I for one am quite happy that such a niche exists, and is available to Linux users. I'd like to think that one day SVG will be a better alternative and we can all switch to that, but for now there's Flash.
If you don't like it, don't install it. But don't expect others to do the same.
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Actually, I installed the plug (plague?) just because those silly anoying dialogs from latest mozilla for nonexistent plugin, which cannot be suppressed. Imagine viewing a news page with 4-5 flashes on it is a real pain clicking [cancel].
Yes, I know real geeks will turn away in disgust just as with any other binary pollution. But I need an equivalent of Infernet Exploder with flash on linux just because my bank does not support anything other.
So I bear no geek pride and no geek prejudices. Now, I will disassemble that libflashplayer.so. I wonder what kind of surprise may lurk down in the code. And no, I will not share THAT knowledge with you, sorry. I'll keep it for myself. Let me begin yes it's mozilla plugin interface, so
Better to make some coffee...
There you are, staring at me again.
If there was ever a reason to have flash, it would be Homestar Runner.
Also, some people such as composer Eric Whitacre use it to give the site a "mood" of sorts, and navigation is still decent (my mouse wheel works, and copy/paste have been implemented). Yes, I'd rather be romping about with my tabs but, I'll live.
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The parent is at least partly right:
I see absolutely no reason for Macromedia not to open-source their plugin.
It would solve numerous problems relating to performance, stability and platform support.
It's not like Macromedia is making any money on the player. As a matter of fact, they need to invest in the development en distribution of a free player in order to sell their content creation tools!
And even if Macromedia would still not open-source their player, I still can't understand why nobody is working on an open-source Flash 7 compatible alternative.
The specifications are available, right?
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It seems to be a little slower than in Mozilla, but due to all the convenience in browsing with konqueror, I'll stick with it. Now, if only Java worked (consistently) in konqueror...
Because vector graphics authoring tools that use motion SVG are, at their beta stage of development, quite poor?
Because HTML/XML can't play movie trailers, whereas Flash's Sorenson codec, native on Linux, can?
Because unlike Java, Flash UI is responsive. unlike DHTML its actually designed for forms, and unlike ActiveX, its cross platform.
You seem to contradict yourself. Either that or you have subliminally realised that copyright infringement is not theft, therefore not stealing. You just haven't realised it consciously yet.
I use a text editor and a browser window. Hit Alt-Tab and refresh the browser. Yes, of course, it *could* me more immediate than that, but at least you are sure that the page will work in your browser, not just in Dreamweaver
Macromedia still don't care about Linux in any meaningful fashion - wake me up when Flash 8 comes out simultaneously on Windows and Linux (Mozilla can do it with a Web browser that's 1,000 times more complex, so why not a browser plug-in?), when Shockwave Player finally appears on Linux and when Macromedia's entire Windows product range is available natively on Linux. Only then can you finally say Macromedia is taking Linux seriously - Oracle switched (albeit from Solaris)...c'mon Macromedia, make the same move...
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64-bit machines are mainly servers. The real advantage in going to 64 bits is when you have large databases, where you must address more than 2Gb of data at a time. For desktop applications, I fail to see an advantage in 64 bits. Even if you do graphics editing, where files may be very large, the overhead isn't that big, because editing is done more or less sequentially. 64 bits shine when you have many users, each accessing different parts of a very large data set at the same time.
Technology IS neutral is has no biases to be bloody anything. At its most fundamental, are you suggesting that rocks are evil because people can get hit over the head with them? I point out we can also build houses and grind corn with them...both offically Good TM. Doesn't this make rocks neutral? See that's why we say tools are neutral...
"Flash is a non-standard, proprietary data format" er no it isn't, flash SWF is an open STANDARD data format. Flash player is a free proprietary player for this open standard. Flash MX 2004 is a Proprietary piece of software that produces SWF files.
"*completely* contrary to every principle behind the design of the internet"
You really have no clue about this whole internet business at all do you? Who exactly do you think designed it, and for what purpose?... (I'll give you a clue, if you can fit it in a post your model is too simplistic.)
I have my eyes closed, until you show me a picture I think is good enough, I'll keep them closed.
How's that whole blind thing working out for ya?
I presume of course you only use lynx to browse?
Clause 3g reads "don't compete with us", clause 3b read "don't even think about it".
Reads: Here's your notice if case we wish to track you or your usage of the software.
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...a nice little menu option in mozilla saying "block flash from this server".
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There are clearly 11 badgers before the two mushrooms.
So to clarify:
badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger Mushroom! MUSHROOM!
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Crap! He's got me doing it!
The Flash 8 player was released for Windows today.
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I presume of course you only use lynx to browse?
Occasionally, but not exclusively. My browsing needs are met by a number of applications and programming libraries depending on what is needed. There is no best browser. Certainly, I believe that images (lacking in lynx) are massively useful in portraying certain types of web content.
The blind analogy is false, and you have missed the point. A better description would be 'I shall open my eyes when I need to. I shan't get run over by a train, because I shall hear it coming'.
for what it's worth, "the US Navy" isn't a homogeneous environment when it comes to computer platforms. Our product has to support RHEL and Win2k, and I've heard of XP and HP-UX boxes, Macs, and even IIRC some QNX machines at various places.
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We're talking about desktop development tools here, not server products.
Oracle is a great database server with some fantastic features not found, for example, in MS SQL Server. However the Oracle (9) client tools are worse than SQL Server's from a usability standpoint.
Oracle's client tools run in Linux and Windows because they are Java (I'm thinking the Enterprise Manager Console and SQL Plus Worksheet here.) This is great for them working cross-platform but is not great for usability because they do not use standard UI interface features from the host OS. This has knock-on effects - for example, a scroll mouse doesn't work.
We might also note that Macromedia's server products such as ColdFusion and JRun all run on Linux. (And have run on other UNIXes such as Solaris for a lot longer.) There just isn't the market there for a desktop port of Flash; if there was, they would port it. Or you could use CrossOver Office.
In any case, the Flash specification is open, so you are free to write your own authoring tools for Linux. (Certainly there are third party tools on Windows.)
Ah! I understand now. You're just upset there isn't enough Flash Pr0n.
What is the best way to turn it off and on?
Sometimes it is useful, though most of the time it
is pollution and needs to be shut off.
And what is the best way to shut shockwave off and on?
Badgers? We don't NEED no stinking badgers!
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You want the Shockwave player for Linux? This is where the Slashdot Effect can actually help.
Go to the Macromedia 'wish form' and tell them you want Shockwave Player for Linux! Development over there seems to be demand-driven, so fill out the form. If they get enough requests, they might just do it.
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... but Mozilla-Firefox forgets the installation each time I boot up (that's once a month for you windoze users). Any ideas what's wrong with it? I've installed from both root and user accounts. Thanks.
to someone who only cares about the way the site looks and isn't a strong enough coder to use PHP to help themselves out.
IE a graphic artist. Who has a windows or mac box already.
I mean, WTF? Dreamweaver is the last media creation application I want someone to spend time porting to non-OSX Unix.
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Again, you are wrong. Stealing is stealing, whether they are material things or not. On the other hand, copyright infringement is not theft, and thus cannot be compared to "pirating", which means robbing, killing, raping (that would be harsher than "stealing", and we are aware that this is not the case). Unauthorized copying/distributing/using would be a better way to describe it, now you imply that you are doing something you are not allowed to, but if you are harming someone, at least it is not a direct harm.
There seems to be something wrong with your site. WWW clients appear to need a "plug in" to present your information. Please delete your site from the Internet until you can comply to existing standards. Maybe you could publish it on an internal network, where you can choose what type of clients and systems that are connected and control what software is installed on these systems?
So now that we finally DO get all the fun, what were the first few sites you went to to actually experience our newly acquired proper flash abilities on Linux? First two sites that I hit were Ninjai and The Rasterbator.
Most likely they think they retain some type of advantage by restricting the most efficient version of the player. However, Macromedia's player isn't the only one available. Apple's Quicktime has had the ability to play back Flash since version 4.
A snippet from the press release: "Because the Flash format is vector-based, Flash content is bandwidth efficient and scales automatically to display as designed in any Web browser. The Flash file format (.swf) is an open standard: any software vendor can output Flash files by writing to the specification published on Macromedia's Web site at www.flash.com/open."
(note - if you want the spec, you should really be here instead. But again, when you download it, you agree not to transmit the spec to anyone else, and there's a rule in the license which basically amounts to "the player you design should actually work before you release it.")
Nope, not contradicting.
Maybe I just put it wrong. I always buy software just as music. Problem is only that people (in their minds) consider stealing a needle more problematic than to make illegal copy of some software.
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I don't get any jerks, but I still get the out-of-sync problem I used to. (The true test of a new installation libflashplayer.so is, of course, to direct your web browser to Homestar Runner ^_^) And here's a bizarre twist: my old libflashplayer.so (version 6) one day just stopped having the latency problems altogether... and now they're back. Call me crazy, and maybe I'm imagining things, but I'm pretty sure that's what happened!
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One of the biggest drawbacks of Mozilla / Firebird is that I can't see Shockwave. I have tried installing the Netscape plugin several times, and it hasn't worked. This is a problem because I am much more familiar with development in Director Lingo, rather than Flash ASP. Does anyone else have this problem?
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Do you know if Illustrator works well under Wine? I would bet that most Flash developers care more about Illustrator support that Photoshop support.
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One of my major problems with the flash 6 for linux was how it handled the fade ins and outs that you find in a lot of things on newgrounds. It took 5 to 10 times longer to actually do it compared to the Windows version. Some games also had a problem with the same timing. For a long time, I used crossover office just for the flash plugin but I got frustrated with it crashed constantly and having to reload or cleanup just to download a new flash. Thankfully, the new version actually does a fade in and out properly and one of my favorite music videos in flash, There she is! is almost perfect on my box.
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It comes back to the point that by stealing the needle, you are depriving someone else the legitimate use of that needle. If, however, I could make a copy of that needle, the bar to doing the wrong thing drops dramatically.
Open source virus scanning. Works good.
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Flash has a nice little niche for silly animations and games
Maybe because I happen to *like* playing some of those "silly games" or those "silly animations" which are often quite decent little animated movies or even quality cartoons
Do I see you not using email because a bunch of idiots use it to send viagara spam? No...? didn't think so.
Blame those that misuse the tool to create crap, not those that make it, and certainly not those that use it to view content.
My first experience with 64 bit linux was with Fedora Core 1 on an Athlon 64. I wanted to look at a web site with flash. So, I just grabbed the i386 flashplayer and installed it. (you have to either install by hand or slightly hack the install script)
Anyhow, it just worked -- video, at least. FC1 had not correctly configured the soundcard so I didn't test the sound in flash.
After upgrading to FC2 it no longer works. Flash isn't improtant enough to me to spend the time figuring out why, but maybe it's just a matter of figuring out how/where to install?
Tried the new plugin on FC2 using firefox, and RH9 under mozilla 1.6 and it still seems broken to me.
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The flash plugin under crossover plugin works fine, but the A/V sync in the new plugin is still messed up.
E.g.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail104.
That's all I ask.
I woke up this morning and discovered I had the flash v7 web plugin on my fedora system, courtesy of the nightly apt-get cron job - coolness, it seems to be working fine.
A sizeable number of the developers at Macromedia are running Macs. The developers want to move Studio (Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks) to Linux.
The problem is with the suits. They're looking for proof that the sales will justify the expense.
To be fair they've let the developers optimize Studio for Wine. If people want Studio on Linux then they need to hear from you. The wish list page on Macromedia.com is the place to voice your feelings.
The only thing preventing my company from going 100% Linux is the Studio port. It can be speeded up if the suits become convinced that it will pay.
Because the two past Flash players for Linux have been horribly laggy with both video and sound, as well as poor image quality. Is this version as fast as the Windows/Mac version?
.. because of all the ads that use it. It seems like a highly effective way for blocking ads.
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I think you'll find that Oracle doesn't care that the Admin tools don't look the same as Mozilla or don't use the GTK, and it doesn't hurt usability just because they don't look as pretty as your desktop. Java was chosen for one reason, because it made the tools look and act exactly the same no matter what OS you decided to run. That makes them far more usable then having them look one way on Windows, another on Linux and a completely different way on Solaris.
If you don't like it don't use them, there's a whole host of tools for interacting with the Oracle Server.
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Macromedia, you proprietary whore. I hope an opensource alternative overtakes the market and burry's you deep. You've got a petition that has brought to your attention numerous times requesting flash on ppc and probably numerous other architectures..
952 signatures isn't enough.. ? go to hell..
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Awwwww, now I feel bad...
I guess I'll have to go spend some of the gobs of money I'm making programming Flash to make myself feel better!
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They Are Vermin Feeding On Each Other's Feces.
I Hate \.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation.html
-Cnik
I'll get right on that...
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yeah!, now I can get a those annoying ORBITZ popus on my Linux box as well!
Just thought that I would note that Flash 7 on Debian Linux Unstable installed easily(untar, drop 2 files in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ and start the browser.
This is the first time that a flash plugin has actually worked for me under Debian/Mozilla-anyflavor/Gnome Desktop(not that the desktop matters)
I sincerelly hope you don't write software with this attitude (at least not commercial, I do both GPL (out of love) and commercial (for my daily bread)). Believe me there's no difference, when your work is at question.
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I am all for non-Flash alternatives in sites
:(
.. but no - Flash sites even have their "navigational" links are in Flash! How stupid is that?
All you need is this:
<OBJECT classid="..." codebase="...">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="flashfile.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=best>
<PARAM NAME=..etc VALUE=..etc>
<EMBED src= "..."></EMBED>
<!-- Now add the alternative HTML!! or GIF or TEXT! -->
</OBJECT>
But recently the most frustrating part is that a client wanted me to redo his site in 100% Flash.
Also I was asked by another client to write an application in 100% Flash ActionScript!
I couldn't protest, I needed the money
the problem with flash isn't that it's great for frivolous internet games and cartoons. the problem is that developers don't, and will never, realize or acknowledge what flash -isn't-. more and more sites rely solely on flash to deliver their content, and the more widespread flash's use becomes, the more this will continue to happen. if flash was indeed a superior content delivery mechanism, i would support this trend wholeheartedly, but i fear this is not the case. the proprietary nature of flash prevents it from being a safe replacement for non-proprietary systems, and this alone is not a concern that will turn developers away from using it. if there is demand, supply will meet it.
I try not to, but sometimes fail.
Looking at my computer right now, I have 11 programs running. 3 are OS, 3 are freeware, 3 I paid for, and 2 I 'acquired'.
If I need/want a program and can afford it, I'll buy it. If I can't afford it, I'll try and find an alternative that's free. If I can't do that, then I'll acquire it. Having got this far, I have already decided I can't buy it, so I'm not depriving them of a sale.
That, to me, is the justification I need to do it with a moderately clean conscience.
It's wrong, I know, but there is a big difference in my mind between losing something physical and losing something intangible. If I coded for a living, no doubt but I'd have your attitude.
I'm a Java architect and manager for a small multimedia company. For 95% of the work I do Linux is by far the best tool for the job. The only thing I'm missing is Flash. Now that I have the player that helps but if I could get the authoring tools that would be even better. I don't want to invest in a Windows license because that is not the best tool for my job.
Heck, I'll pay straight out of my own pocket for this.
User's of open source software don't buy software? Maybe. I write software. I don't mind paying for good software. And everyone at my company would rather buy Linux software then Windows software. So there!
--
Dan Glauser
J2EE Architect
Roundbox Media
http://www.roundboxmedia.com
Other platforms download link:r nates/
x .cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Li nux&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alte
Linux x86 Flash Player 7 for Mozilla 1.2
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/inde
Older version not supported by MacroMedia
Linux x86 (1) (2) Flash Player 6 for Mozilla 1.1
http://macromedia.mplug.org/
(1) Not officially supported by Macromedia.
(2) These Linux packages (RPM, DEB, ebuild) are available for manual download, apt-get, urpmi, or emerge for these supported operating systems: RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Generic.
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They use MS office, because everybody has it, and they use closed formats, and interoperability is crap with other applications, but OO1.1 does a great job at writing, and a decent job at reading MS.DOC (much better than OO1.0), which is the most problematic.
Personally, either free, bought or none.
moderately clean conscience
Don't you think, that moderation bar goes higher with time. (take as population) Copying software is just becoming normal daily thing that no one cares about.
The only problem with humanity is that moderation is view in selfish view only. When persons job is at stake... Heeeeeeell NOOOO!
My attitude is just clean. Either it's free or commercial. Mine or others.
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I've also got a "slash" alias, that opens up a terminal window with slashdot in lynx. I've got my slashdot preferences set for light/minimal whatever they call it, which cuts down on some of the fugliness that might be (even more) irritating in lynx.
But the main reason I started rambling about this, is that I thought I'd mention that lynx and image browsing are not mutally exclusive. I think the key is adding a
to yourAnyway... Once you're configured like this you always have the *option* of looking at an image. You select it the way you would select any link, and it opens it in an external image viewer.
Selecting the right image can take a little practice, however (many sites are a forest of stupid little images of bullets and bars, and they *still* like to be skimpy on the ALT text).
As with many other tools, the virtues of lynx are intimately bound up in it's limitations. Looking at a site that insists on subdividing your screen into little boxes? Lynx will tend to linearize those, you'll see one thing after another. Does the site tend to inflict itty bitty fonts on you? In mozilla you may have to keep hitting Control plus and minus to adjust font size after every click, but in lynx, all text is displayed in the same uniform way that you've choosen. Is the site completely incomprehensible when viewed without all the graphical doodads? Well you know, maybe that means it's not worth looking at anyway...
And of course, lynx will *never* bug you to install a flash plug-in...
but if everyone on Slashdot agrees with a troll, is it really a troll? :-)
The problem with Shockwave is that it was never intended to be cross-platform. Shockwave (or at least, Macromedia Director) seems to make extensive calls to the Windows API to do a lot of the things it does (playing AVI movies comes to mind).
If you want Shockwave support for Linux/x86, you can use the Crossover plugin (now integrated with Crossover Office), which is made by CodeWeavers.
Looks like Macromedia has finally made good on their word and provided Linux with a current version of Flash player.
Damn you Macromedia!
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."