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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.
and what, exactly, do you need with a 64 bit flash player? Downloading some 20GB animations, are we?
it's also way user friendly, & totally newclear powered. you can 'play' along if you want to.
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is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal s
there are 3 problems with your post
1) This is slashdot you have no gf
2) Why the fuck is your hypothetical gf even running IE, you should have switched her to firefox or chrome long ago!
3) You prefer a closed source shitty player to an open source (moonlight) shitty player
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
fucking lame unoriginal troll that was
you dumb fags take obama's dick up your ass and ask for more.
Must not feed trolls but
...But please, lets be realistic.
In your minds, if company Z doesn't support Linux, they lose. If they do support linux, they lose even worse. They get screamed at for not releasing specs, not GPL'ing the source, not supporting a specific distribution, not supporting 64-bit... the list goes on.
Yeah we hate mathmatica, matlab and ID too? No we got burned by adobes proprietory nature and methods, just a year ago too so were not too kean on them right now. Additionally their implementation sucks
Now if you're going to take the time to respond to this, please answer me this: Why should company X spend the most time supporting a platform that has the least marketshare?
Linux folk see the problem being that software vendors don't support linux. The fact of the matter is Linux doesn't support ISV's.
If you want us to like you, your going to have to support our system, i doubt many mac users love game developers who ignore them either. As for spending the most time supporting us, well with a well implemented program thats not really true, ID games were all ported in a developers spare time IIRC, programs with lots of OS integration (chrome may take longer, but a well maintained code base can be ported fairly easily (google desklet, dashboard desklets, ID games, HL (without the rendering as that requires directX), etc)
There are a million different distro's with no standardization. You already have your market share working against you, and you realize that. What you don't seem to realize is that your platform is the hardest to develop for and support.
A common point against linux, but linux standard base says differently providing
standard libraries, a number of commands and utilities that extend the POSIX standard, the layout of the file system hierarchy, run levels, the printing system, including spoolers such as CUPS and tools like Foomatic and several extensions to the X Window System.
LSB is supported by novell(suse,opensuse,etc), redhat(RH,centos,fedora), Mandrakesoft and Debian(ubuntu,xandros) and id bet that slackware/gnetoo can handle RPMs too.
Additionally the software API* for linux is more or less stable (atleast as stable as windows has been recently) that's why you can install binaries for software and if it was designed for it 2.6 kernel it will normally work most of the time. If you want to make use of our libraries this is not necessarily true but your still free to implement your own libraries or compile your binary with snapshots of free libraries (dependent on how the library is used).
You really should do something about this before you scream with a sense of entitlement that some company should spend time and money supporting your platform when it is not likely to be financially viable.
Entitlement? i dont feal entitled but I do want my voice to be heard as nobody is going to port to linux just for fun.
*Binaries dealing with the kernel directly have it more difficult, but if the source is avalible we will try our best to get it working (Even if its not strictly allowed, see cisco vpnc)
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
I think the full command is /
rm -rf
and that allows you to convert all your *.rm files into a real video format, instead of a RealVideo format.