Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux

TheDarkener writes "Adobe seems to have made an about face regarding their support for native 64-bit Linux support for Flash today, and released a new preview Flash plugin named 'Square.' This includes a native 64-bit version for Linux, which I have verified works on my Debian Lenny LTSP server by simply copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins — with sound (which I was never able to figure out with running the 32-bit version with nspluginwrapper and pulseaudio)."

Comments

Re:Why does linux get this?

[bramp]

Did you even look at the page? There is a 64bit version for Windows!

Re:Why does linux get this?

[whoisrich]

If you look at the downloads, theres 64-bit for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Re:We have had it for a while

[Cougar Town]

The 64-bit plugin for Linux has never had hardware acceleration enabled. The 32-bit version does... maybe they've finally enabled it in this new version. I'll switch to this if that's the case... otherwise, I'm happy with my 32-bit plugin and smooth full screen video.

Re:Hey Adobe!

[Rik Sweeney]

I'm really sorry, that's just a knee jerk reaction every time I see the words "Linux" and "Flash" in the title of a Slashdot article.

Re:Is it still using 100% CPU

[TheRaven64]

In the winter, the metal case of my laptop makes the wrist rests a bit too chilly to want to use for more than a short time. I got into the habit of leaving a Flash game running in the background for ten minutes in the morning to warm them up.

Enable hardware acceleration

[whovian]

The 64-bit plugin for Linux has never had hardware acceleration enabled. The 32-bit version does... maybe they've finally enabled it in this new version. I'll switch to this if that's the case... otherwise, I'm happy with my 32-bit plugin and smooth full screen video.

Right-click, Settings...

[x] Enable hardware acceleration

Looks promising!

Re:Why does linux get this?

[nickull]

Because there are lots of us who work at Adobe who have been very vocal internally about ensuring that Linux is a first class O/S and released at the same time as the other O/S's. That is why Linux is getting the 64 bit Flash Player. More and more of us are using Ubuntu and RHEL on the server (our enterprise ESB uses RHEL/(WebSphere || Weblogic || JBoss) as a reference implementation!). Now if we could only talk our bosses into CS5 for Linux.....