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Interview With Linux Flash Player's Lead Engineer
An anonymous reader writes, "Ryan Stewart of ZDNet has an interview with Mike Melanson, the lead engineer behind Adobe's upcoming Flash Player 9 for Linux. It covers what the plans are for the player, what kinds of things won't be in the Linux player that are in the other players, and ways to give Adobe input on the Linux player."
favorite eyecandy machine, complete with a new spyware vector and unblockable ads is coming to Linux. Please join me in celebration of this auspicious day.
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
...this is Linux/x86-32 support.
Linux is well supported on at least 11 architectures. To claim that a piece of software "runs on Linux" with no further qualifications implies that it runs on them all.
If you're releasing a binary-blob-piece-of-shit that only runs on Linux/x86 (or, even worse, only Linux/x86-32), then you're not "supporting Linux" and should be fucking ashamed of lying so goddamn brazenly. You should at least have the balls to state "runs on Linux/x86-32" if that's what you mean.
(If you're relying on glibc extensions to the standard C library, you should really state GNU/Linux/x86-32, but that's another kettle of fish)
Why doesn't the gene pool have a life guard?