x86 Linux Flash Player 9 is Final

Schlaegel writes "The official Adobe Linux Flash blog has announced that Flash player for x86 Linux is now final and no longer beta. Every x86 Linux user, at least those willing to load binary software, can rejoice and no longer feel like a second rate citizen. Distribution packages are also available, for example the Macromedia Fedora repository already has the flash player marked for update."

Comments

Yeah, so, what.

[OriginalArlen]

Between running Deerpark alphas (Firefox 3.0a1, a2) , multiple OS kernel and lib recompilations, and then an abortive attempt to upgrade from Mandriva 2006 --> 2007 that broke ACPI, Java and (most vital for me) PPTPConfig -- so no VPN == no working from home -- I've ended up without a working Flash plug-in. Oh, the horror. I tried installing it on the new installation but it killed Firefox stone dead every time, so I removed it. You know how much I miss it? Not at all. Every time I see a grey square with the dreaded "click here to download the plug-in" label, I smile and the thought that it's just another annoying advert I am happy not to see. What the hell else is it used for? YouT00b? Pfffft, I hardly watch any TV anyway, why would I want to see a bunch of home-video crap that was turned down by the lamest of camcorder clip programmes?

Let me know when someone does something actually useful in Flash, that wouldn't be better done in plain ol' HTML and images.

PS Adobe suck fat donkey's cock anyway -- how long is it that the universal cross-site-scripting issue was supposedly fixed? (months) and where's the advisory? Still no sign of it. So we don't know which versions are safe and which aren't. I'm grabbing every excuse possible to show colleagues at work that look, I can read PDFs on my Linux machine without tainting it with a 100Mb (yes 100Mb!!!) binary, when Xpdf can do it with 2Mb.

Re:Why?

[marcello_dl]

Well every time linux has some recognition, however insignificant for you (and for me, being it non free binary blob that my powerpc won't see anyway), is yet another nail in the coffin of the "non readiness of linux on the desktop" tale.

Re:Any vacancies in the i-still-hate-flash dept.?

[dave420]

Flash is REALLY useful. I stream my music and video across the net using flash. I know that any machine (Windows/OSX/Linux) that has flash player installed can stream my media. Until there is a decent replacement that is just as light, Flash is here to stay. But nice sour grapes, though. seriously. tasty.