Flash 9 Beta for Linux Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 18, 2006 @11:49PM from the watch-it-now dept.

DemiKnute writes "According to the official Penguin.SWF blog, the a beta release of the long-awaited Flash 9 for Linux is available for download, a mere year after the release for Windows." From the blog: "While we are still working out exactly how to distribute the final Player version to be as easy as possible for the typical end user, this beta includes 2 gzip'd tarball packages: one is for the Mozilla plugin and the other is for a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player. Either will need to be downloaded manually via the Adobe Labs website and unpacked. The standalone Player (gflashplayer) can be run in place (after you set its executable permission). The plugin is dropped into your local plugin directory (for a local user) or the system-wide plugin directory." Report bugs here.

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Fantastic by mogrify · 2006-10-19 01:22 · Score: 4, Interesting

Long-awaited, indeed. The best part is finally being able to play Flash Video 8 on Linux. They got a huge quality improvement when they switched from Sorensen Spark to ON2 VP6, but no one who cares about Linux users could use it... until now :)

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Re:AMD64 version? by jimicus · 2006-10-19 02:25 · Score: 4, Interesting

I'd go a step further and ask what benefit a 64-bit OS has unless you have over 4GB RAM.

AFAICT, you use up more disk space, individual apps require more memory and the biggest benefit - that you can access >4GB without hacks like PAE - is irrelevant.