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Linux Now an Equal Flash Player
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.
Now make them do the same with Photoshop.
Tomorrow MS will announce that Windows Paint runs under wine!
It's [loading...] a [loading...] multimedia [loading...] player/viewer [loading...].
Now, I can watch my CPU's max out, and my systems become unresponsive on EVERY platform!
It's a slideshow viewer.
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.
I'm pretty sure you already do run it NAIVELY it you think that you need it to be 64 bit!
My Babylon
What's that?
It's just a story we tell to scare the kids.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
The kind who would think the Flash player was a good idea in the first place.
In Linux, you can view *.rm files with rm command.