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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 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.

  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.

    --
    "The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." --Carl Sagan
  3. Flash for the 64bit DEC Alpha !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally,

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

  4. 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.)