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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. Now if only... by Atrax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... they'd release the authoring tool in a Linux version?

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    Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
    1. Re:Now if only... by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      ".. they'd release the authoring tool in a Linux version?"

      Hate to sound like I'm trolling here, but in order to get Macromedia to make authoring tools for Linux, you guys gotta prove you're willing to buy it. All this free-software movement probably puts the taste in a lot of people's mouthes that nobody wants to spend money on software.

    2. Re:Now if only... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Hardly anyone buys software for Linux desktop use, which is really what the thread is about. There is almost zero commerce for Linux and without a single desktop, commercial support and no moving targets, that is hardly ever likely to happen.
      Obviously for server use it's a different story where vendors just treat Linux and a cheap UNIX and porting is easy.

      I use Linux everyday and have for years, but I see no software market at all for desktop apps until things change. Compare this with almost an uncountable number of apps for Windows and Mac.

  2. It is for x86 GNU/Linux, remember that. by latroM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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.