Linux Now an Equal Flash Player

[riddlermarc]

As recently as 2007, Linux users waited six months for Flash 9 to arrive. Now, with Microsoft pushing its Silverlight alternative, Adobe is touting the universality of its Flash format, which has penetrated '98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops,' it claims. And, it today released Flash 10 for Linux concurrently with other platforms. Welcome to the future.

Full story. Finally, although I despise Flash in websites it is inevitable to need it at some point..

 

[nikebee]

Brilliant news

I hate websites dominated by flash, but like you said it's inevitable that you'll need it for one thing or another.

 

[GarethDW]

Agreed - not a Flash fan myself, but it's good to see Adobe giving Linux the same priority as Windows at long last.

Is Silverlight compatible with Linux? If not, I wonder whether Microsoft will release a Linux version of it, seeing as though they despise everything to do with the OS? Will they accept Linux is a viable OS for the desktop and that as such they have to release a compatible version, or will they cut their nose and their market share by insisting it's not worth their time and effort?

 

[tntcoder]

Still no 64bit == Not equal

Small steps in the right direction though

 

[Garp]

Still no 64bit == Not equal

Small steps in the right direction though

Why would flash need to be 64bit? Hardly going to come across flash animations that use more than 2Gig of data.

 

[yashiro]

Is Silverlight compatible with Linux?

They don't develop it but leave it to the usual nerds and hackers to do it for them.

Are you saying Flash 10 won't install on a 64bit Linux install/Mozilla?
Have not had chance to check as my Linux machine is broken.

 

[tntcoder]

Why would flash need to be 64bit? Hardly going to come across flash animations that use more than 2Gig of data.

? Because currently on a 64bit OS you have to go through endless amounts of crappy work arounds in order to get the 32bit only version of flash working....

 

[LizardKing]

Still no 64bit == Not equal

Small steps in the right direction though

There isn't a decent 64bit Windows version either

 

[Hades]

There isn't a decent version of Windows either

Fixed

 

[BillytheImpaler]

The guys at Novell who are developing Mono, including Miguel de Icaza, the guy who founded the Gnome project, are working on a player for Silverlight-content licensed under the GPL called Moonlight. MS is assisting them to some extent in their endeavor.

 

[Fourstar]

Ah, what a joy it is to be able to fire open a bunch of tabs without FF freezing for what feels like seconds at a time.

iPlayer also plays full screen without turning into a blocky mess

The annoying problem with context menus appearing behind flash is supposedly also solved in FF >3.0.2 with flash 10 though I've not come across any since upgrading.

Not noticed any new problems yet.

It still steals all my audio so nothing will make a sound till I close FF but the ubuntu forums list some PulseAudio tweaks that might fix it.

 

[Monkeynut]

The open source Gnash has also hit 0.8.4 and is in Intrepid Ibex and now runs Youtube perfectly.