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Interview With Linux Flash Player's Lead Engineer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-everyone-loves-flash dept.

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."

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  1. Why Linux isn't more popular by 4solarisinfo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Since this thread seems to be about burning Karma, may as well go way out on a limb here...

    What to know why Linux isn't catching on faster?

    You can get in-sync audio by using alsa-oss. I'm sure if you Google around, you'll find the solution to your problem.


    Only in the world of Linux would it seem like a good idea to avoid the software being specifically written to do X be avoided by having to google to find a tweak to an old program by loading another program. I appreciate the benefits of open source, but Macromedia created flash for a specific form of content, and is writing a driver to allow everyone in Linux to see it better, why does this need a workaround? Is it just too simple?