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Flash 9 Beta for Linux Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Frosty piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To die, to sleep..

    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
    when we have shuffled off this mortal coil to give us pause

    1. Re:Frosty piss! by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Personally, the quote I would have used for this paticular story would be:
      Fie on't! ah fie!
      'tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed;
      things rank and gross in nature possess it merely.

      I foresee a multitude of Flash weeds clogging up the tubes of the internet in the near future.
      --
      May the Maths Be with you!
    2. Re:Frosty piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Frosty sez:
      To die, to sleep..


      Fact: *BSD is dying
  2. 64 bit version? by TigerPaw · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is there any news if it supports AMD 64 architecture?
    http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/re leasenotes.html doesn't reveal anything. Please support 64 bit installations too :/

  3. Re:AMD64 version? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    inciteful!? sarcastic, maybe funny how did this get inciteful?

  4. Re:AMD64 version? by massysett · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which is a huge nuisance, why should adobe be able to hold people back from moving to 64bit architectures?

    Was it a gun, or a knife?

    --
    Penny - plain text accounting