Adobe Releases Last Linux Version of Flash Player

dartttt writes "Adobe has released Flash Player version 11.2 with many new features. This is the final Flash Player release for Linux platform and now onward there will be only security and bug fix updates. Last month Adobe announced that it is withdrawing Flash Player support for Linux platform. All the future newer Flash releases will be bundled with Google Chrome using its Pepper API and for everything else, 11.2 will be the last release."

Comments

Fcuk you Adobe

[karolbe]

We don't need yout stinky Flash!

Re:Fcuk you Adobe

[Patchw0rk F0g]

We don't need yout stinky Flash!

Actually, you do. Unless, of course, you want to code your animations by hand. Go ahead. Me, I'd much rather use Flash, and then Swiffy them out. Much cleaner, much easier.

Why I don't read Slashdot any more

[yuna49]

This thread is a good example of the bubble in which Slashdot readers now seem to reside. Outside of the bubble millions of people use Flash every day to watch videos on thousands of web sites. Inside the bubble we have dozens of postings about how awful Flash is and why you don't use it.

Well, guess what? That's why the fringes of the open-source movement have become progressively less relevant over the years. I've been a Linux user since 1994 and will continue to use it in the future. That said, it's ridiculous to assume that people running Linux won't want to visit sites like Hulu. I turned off Flash, installed flashvideoreplacer, and had no success at sites like Hulu or Crunchyroll. I could get flashvideoreplacer to launch smplayer when I visited YouTube, but it failed miserably with Hulu.

Call me when the entire Internet has converted to HTML5. I'll check back then.

Re:Hulu Desktop?

[hairyfeet]

So even you admit its the death of the whole "free as in beer" part of FOSS. And frankly it doesn't bother me, i use Windows where MSFT pays my license fee. what DOES bother me is frankly i don't believe the web should be locked down as we already saw what that got us with IE and all those damned proprietary formats like RMV and WMV. I had hope that the developers would stand their ground and refuse to support HTML V5 until a baseline codec was chosen that ALL could use without getting "pay your $699 license fee" but it looks like that is over.

I DO however find it funny as hell the "FOSSies", those that are the rampant fanbois of the FOSS world, can't even see the freight train barreling down the tracks. they had such a fucking hatred for Flash because it was buggy they are too fucking clueless to see what it is obviously gonna be replaced with has more ways to buttfuck them than SCO ever even dreamed of and you know what? Unlike SCO these patents WILL stick and royally assrape any chance of "free as in beer" remaining a viable option.

Personally I'm glad, maybe once free as in beer is thrown in the trash heap of history they will wake the fuck up and realize TINSTAAFL and maybe with all the major distros being forced to charge to pay their $699 license fees and to remove the right to redistribute (because MPEG-LA sure as fuck isn't gonna sell you a blanket license for shit) then MAYBE, just maybe, will the distros have enough funds to make a truly world class OS instead of constantly breaking shit. One can hope after all.

BTW isn't it funny that I get modded as a troll for daring to point out reality? Does ANYONE believe MPEG-LA is gonna be all warm and fuzzy to the Linux community, when it has over 2000+ patents that pretty much cover EVERY possible way to encode and decode video and has been willing to bitchslap anyone and everyone with a lawsuit if they don't pay their $699 license fees? pretty damned funny if you ask me that so many are blinded by their perception bubbles to see they just threw away the mangy old mutt that was friendly known as flash for a rabid pitbull that looks at their ass like a starving man looks at a T-Bone steak. Fucking stupid FOSSies are gonna get run over like a Mac truck and are too damned clueless to even see it coming, too fucking funny.