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Gotuit Online Player Now Available for Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the video-fix dept.

VidMan writes, "The Gotuit.com free online video player now works for Linux users with the recent Flash 9 beta release. When the Gotuit site was released in late July, one of the key questions from Slashdot users was when the site would be available for Linux. The site is an online video destination for music videos, news, weather, and sports that uses the Flash media player to deliver video."

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  1. And this is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Some obscure video site now works on x86-linux using beta-stage proprietary software. I fail to see the importance.

  2. That was the key question? by 5E-0W2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By the looks of it, the key question was "why should we care?" or possibly "why don't they have any content?" (the word slashvertisement also came up, but not as a question). So this boils down to non-interesting site that requires flash 9 still requires flash 9 but now flash 9 for linux is out, an event which got its own article.

    1. Re:That was the key question? by Kangburra · · Score: 2, Insightful

      There must be a click counter somewhere in there.

      The site is pure flash so I guess Linux users couldn't see it before, now then can, but why they'd want to is beyond me! :-(

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  3. Sorry, it does not support Linux by Raphael · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Considering that the proprietary Flash player fails to run at all on my Athlon64 and Opteron sytstems, I would say that it does not support Linux. It just supports a subset of the 32-bits x86 Linux platforms, that's all.

    I also have several ARM-based devices running Linux (Nokia N770, Linksys NSLU2) and it does not work on these either.

    Sorry, but that was a bad slashvertisement for something that does not even support Linux correctly.

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