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Flash 7 for Linux Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the long-time-coming dept.

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?"

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  1. Also available as package by G�tz · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's also available as packages for all major distributions from here..

    1. Re:Also available as package by Yokaze · · Score: 3, Informative

      Every time you scroll the license, the counter is resetted to 240 seconds.

      Still, the counter is somewhat questionable, as it puts the user under pressure, without haveing a positive effect I can think of.

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  2. Misnomer title by diwadm · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Now if only... by Majix · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're working on a Flash authoring tool called Flex that runs on Linux. The plan is to run it with Wine though, but I guess it's better than nothing. Now we just need Adobe to get with the program.

  4. A Speedup Trick... by ajayrockrock · · Score: 5, Informative

    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...

    --Ajay

  5. Re:Now if only... by gerbick · · Score: 3, Informative

    Flex is a $12k server based Flash tool, not the more friendly $500.00+ utility like the Macromedia Flash IDE. 'tis not the same thing. It's a start though.

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  6. Re:Now if only... by nametaken · · Score: 3, Informative

    I do author in Linux. Just, using PHP + Ming SWF Output library. Sure, it's nothing near a real authoring environment... and DEFINATELY has it's drawbacks... but it gets me by. http://ming.sourceforge.net/

  7. Re: With version 7, this trick is no longer needed by zero0w · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  8. Works great with Konqueror! by Vertex+Operator · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  9. Re:Read the EULA? by fireklar · · Score: 4, Informative
    1. You may not make or distribute copies of the Software, or electronically transfer the Software from one computer to another or over a network.
    Downloading it from their servers would be an "electronic transfer" of the Software over a network. Therefore, both uploading and downloading violate the EULA.
  10. Re:Read the EULA? by Joel+Carr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Reminds me of GriSoft's AVG Free Edition virus scanner license agreement, which has the following clause:

    3. You may not use the Software on a network or more than one PC.
    - emphasis mine.

    Although these days the intent is somewhat clearer from reading the rest of the agreement, there was a time when it wasn't.

    I was helping a strapped for cash organisation legitimise their software, and we decided to see if we could find a free virus scanner before forking out cash for one. So I shot off an email asking them to clarify what they meant by 'a network', pointing out that the internet is a network, and one assumes you can have an internet network connection since the software has an email scanner... After a week they sent an email back repeating the the above clause with the word 'network' capitalised.... Sigh, I don't think they got the point....

    We ended up paying for a virus scanner, but didn't end up buying it from them.

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  11. Re:No, Seriously. . . by le_jfs · · Score: 3, Informative

    but nothing, from Google to grep, can parse the content of a Flash movie.

    Troll. Just have a look at this: google for hello world in flash
    And this: swfstrings

    Still, I think you're right about the fact that Flash is an annoying Internet pollution and should not be over-used in menus or content. But saying one cannot google or grep it is a lie.

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  12. Re:Now if only... by justsomebody · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actualy, Macromedia sent letters to customers in form of:

    Would you migrate???
    Would you buy...???

    I guess they got enough positive response to start making authoring tools. You can read press releases for your self on Macromedia

    First version will be Wine based, probably Crossover, second is the native version.

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  13. Re:You, sir (madam?) are a buffoon... by MaestroSartori · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Flash file format is open. I don't understand your point. Just because something is proprietary doesn't make it not open, or bad for that matter. There are tools out there which output Flash and are not made by Macromedia themselves. There are even open source Flash production mechanisms. Yes, Macromedia could at some point change the file format to obfuscate it, yes they could make it non-backwards-compatible, they could even decide to abandon Flash completely. That doesn't put the genie back in the bottle, and its still not making Flash a bad thing in and of itself.

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  14. Re:mod parent up by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 3, Informative

    AND, IIRC, the US Navy is moving to PPC/Linux.

    But you recall wrong. The Navy is moving to Microsoft Windows. The NMCI is all Microsoft.