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64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-and-shiny dept.

Luchio writes "Finally, a little bit of respect from Adobe with this alpha release of the Adobe Flash Player 10 that was made available for all Linux 64-bit enthusiasts! As noted, 'this is a prerelease version,' so handle with care. Just remove any existing Flash player and extract the new .so file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (or /usr/lib/opera/plugins)."

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  1. This isn't news... by AllyGreen · · Score: 5, Informative

    The 64 bit flash player has been in alpha for over a year....

    1. Re:This isn't news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      The date on the article is November 19, 2008. Even by Slashdot standards, this is ridiculously old news.

    2. Re:This isn't news... by AllyGreen · · Score: 4, Informative

      Wow, just checked the date of the first article thats linked in the summary, nov 19th 2008!

    3. Re:This isn't news... by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Informative

      64-bit enthusiasts?

      x86-64 is THE de-facto architecture. Save the enthusiast label for all the retro x86 steam punk guys.

    4. Re:This isn't news... by ZombieWomble · · Score: 4, Informative
      This article seems to have popped up because Adobe have indeed released an updated version of the flash player on the 11th of this month. Still alpha, but slightly newer. Pleasingly, it seems to have fixed the only persistent bug I had with the player (which caused Firefox to report a crash every time it was closed - no actual errant behaviour, however).

      Why exactly the submitter picked at year-and-a-bit old article as a reference for this news is still a mystery, however.

  2. Old news, slight revision, still broken Hulu. by proxima · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is another revision over previous 64-bit Flash revisions. I've been using it for months, mostly without trouble.

    Around mid-January though, Hulu broke with all Linux clients running 64-bit Flash. You get "Sorry, we are unable to stream this video", and the support forum is full of people reporting it. As far as I know Hulu has provided no response, and there are rumors that something related to video DRM that Hulu enabled (must be recently) is not supported in the 64-bit Flash player yet. Workarounds including using the Hulu desktop (which some report as buggy), watching at least some of the videos via Fancast (which I didn't even know existed), or using the 32-bit plugin. I just tried this 10.0.45 release and it has the same problem.

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  3. And In Other News by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft has just announced the release of Windows Vista, predicting that it will surely be the best selling operating system the Redmond, WA based company has ever released.

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  4. Flash for the 64bit DEC Alpha !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally,

    Though wouldn't a PPC Linux binary be more useful?

  5. Re:Downtime is the name of the game by corychristison · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Man, Flash Player locks up the CPU and crashes more often with gold releases than most alpha software. I think you'd have to be sadist to run software in alpha for Linux from Adobe.

    Really? Honestly I haven't ever had any real issues with Flash since I've been running the 64bit release of about a year ago.
    Even before that I had minimal issues running the 32bit version under 64bit Firefox via NSPluginWrapper.
    I'm running Gentoo Linux and it works fine. No crashing, no lagging aside from trying to run YouTube in fullscreen doesn't always work out so swell (24" LCD @ 1920x1200 resolution). I suppose that's the lack of H/W acceleration.
    I also don't have any issues using Adobe Reader. Maybe I am just lucky?

  6. Re:Downtime is the name of the game by Godji · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm running Gentoo Linux and it works fine.

    There's your answer. We Gentoo users have a slightly distorted definition of "works fine" :D

    (Disclaimer: I kid.)

  7. Re:What was the previous release? by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Funny

    You ascii a stupid question, you get a stupid ansi. ::ducks::

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