Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that with the release of the 10.1 security patches, Adobe has, at least temporarily, killed 64-bit Flash for Linux. The statement says: 'The Flash Player 10.1 64-bit Linux beta is closed. We remain committed to delivering 64-bit support in a future release of Flash Player. No further information is available at this time. Please feel free to continue your discussions on the Flash Player 10.1 desktop forums.' The 64-bit forum has been set to read-only."

Comments

Re:This is why Flash must die.

[dr. chuck bunsen]

Did you account for all browsers when you wrote the video tags?

This is exactly why Flash will always be relevant. HTML5 is fucking retarded for so many reasons, but everyone is running around acting like a bunch of children about it? How long before people come to their senses on this one?

Re:Got an Education?

[Andy Dodd]

Why don't you get an education?

Shut up until you can show me a link to a full Adobe Flash specification which includes RTMPE protocol documentation.

Shut up until you can show me ONE Flash implementation containing RTMPE support that has been written or distributed within the United States that hasn't resulted in a DMCA takedown notice from Adobe. (Gnash has never at any point been Hulu compatible.)

Flowplayer is light on the details of exactly how it is implemented, but it does not appear to be an alternative Flash client implementation. In fact it appears to depend on a Flash implementation being present on the client side.

Nearly all of the tools linked in that swftools link require Adobe's flash implementation to also be present on the client side, they are add-ons for it, NOT replacements. For example, the Eltima Flash'In'App is NOT a Flash reimplementation, but just a method for embedding Flash 8 or above into standalone apps. Flash 8 or above must still be present on the user's machine. From the site: "Your users will need at least Mac OS X 10.4 or later and Flash Player 8 or newer to run applications that you develop with Flash'In'App. Note: transparency will only work correctly on Intel-based Macs (sorry, it's not our limitation, but Adobe's one)."

It appears, to me, that you are the one drinking Adobe's "we have documented Flash sufficiently for alternative implementations" Kool-Aid.