Linux Now an Equal Flash Player

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Linux Now an Equal Flash Player

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @08:12AM from the cheek-by-jowl dept.

nerdyH writes "As recently as 2007, Linux users waited six months for Flash 9 to arrive. Now, with Microsoft pushing its Silverlight alternative, Adobe is touting the universality of its Flash format, which has penetrated '98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops,' it claims. And, it today released Flash 10 for Linux concurrently with other platforms. Welcome to the future." Handily enough, Real Networks released this summer RealPlayer 11 for Linux, the first release for which they've included a .deb package, and offers nightly builds of their Helix player, for which Linux is one of the supported platforms.

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RealPlayer? by Thelasko · 2008-10-15 08:15 · Score: 2, Funny

What's that?

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1. Re:RealPlayer? by ksd1337 · 2008-10-15 08:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's [loading...] a [loading...] multimedia [loading...] player/viewer [loading...].
2. Re:RealPlayer? by jaavaaguru · 2008-10-15 08:19 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It's [buffering...] a media [buffering...] player
  
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3. Re:RealPlayer? by mweather · 2008-10-15 08:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's a slideshow viewer.
4. Re:RealPlayer? by MBGMorden · 2008-10-15 08:47 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  What's that?
  It's just a story we tell to scare the kids.
  
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5. Re:RealPlayer? by Erikderzweite · 2008-10-15 10:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  In Linux, you can view *.rm files with rm command.
6. Re:RealPlayer? by RazzleDazzle · 2008-10-15 10:51 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Real Buffering
  
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Re:yay competition! by Jherek+Carnelian · 2008-10-15 08:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Now make them do the same with Photoshop.
Tomorrow MS will announce that Windows Paint runs under wine!
Outstanding!!!! by LibertineR · 2008-10-15 08:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Now, I can watch my CPU's max out, and my systems become unresponsive on EVERY platform!
Go Home Silverlight by Drake42 · 2008-10-15 08:26 · Score: 5, Funny

Competition is good and all, but this is just annoying. It only exists to muddy the waters.
I'm just waiting for MS to announce that they will no longer speak english, but will communicate only in Anglush-Sharp. A language in which every noun is copyrighted by Microsoft and only MS approved verbs will generate an intelligible response.
BRAVO! by sinserve · 2008-10-15 08:30 · Score: 2, Funny

Well done Adobe! Now we're talking. Help us help YOU keep Silverlight still-born.
Re:The future? by ericrost · 2008-10-15 08:41 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm pretty sure you already do run it NAIVELY it you think that you need it to be 64 bit!

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Re:The future? by Lord+Ender · 2008-10-15 08:49 · Score: 2, Funny

In practice, none of those things work well with Ubuntu. None of them are easy to set up. Basically, flash is still unavailable to the majority of Ubuntu users.

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Yay RealPlayer! by nog_lorp · 2008-10-15 09:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Just what I've always wanted, RealPlayer on a computer that I own! Can we have QuickTime too?
Re:No 64-bit by greg1104 · 2008-10-15 09:58 · Score: 5, Funny

What kind of incompetents are they?
The kind who would think the Flash player was a good idea in the first place.
Re:yay competition! by hsa · 2008-10-15 19:34 · Score: 2, Funny

Tomorrow MS will announce that Windows Paint runs under wine!
Only if they use licensed technology provided by Novell for maximum compatibility.