Flash users rejoice: Flash Player for Linux coming soon (hopefully)
It seems that Adobe does have an intention of making Flash available for the Linux platform. The news might be a bit late, since the relevant articles/posts are dated May 2006. I posted anyway for those who don't know yet, and to provide some links.
This fact was brought to my attention through a blog post in News.com. And I was able to pull of some useful links:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ - a blog about tracking the development of Flash Player for Linux
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/a...irginia_th.cfm - a blog entry from Adobe's Flash Player product manager. It says that the earliest beta version might be available early 2007. Roughly 6 months to go. :P
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Thanks to sum it up. The best place for me to gather news is penguin.swf.
Look at this, about the APIS that flash 9 on linux are going to use:
* General graphics: X11
* GUI elements (dialog boxes): GTK (oh yeah! menus for gnome!)
* Audio I/O: ALSA (finally!!!!)
* Camera input: Video4Linux, API version 1
* Threads: POSIX threads
* non-HTTP Networking: BSD sockets
* SSL: OpenSSL
* IME: you know what? I don't think we've settled on this one yet...
We have to wait for 6 months or more..... not a good thing. At least, i hope they do an excellent version. It's a big pain to deal with flash on linux right now.
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Yeah I hope that the long wait is worth it. Flash is still one of those things that most Linux users are clamoring for. The Java problem has (mostly) been solved. (Of course, whether Richard Stallman agrees with this or not is beyond my present concern :D)
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Btw, I love your avatar! Naruto-kun! Where do you guys get those cute penguins? :D
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Cool, that made my day. But 2007 not so cool.
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The tux avatars:
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Naruto is the best! :-D was Naruto or Bleach :-D
There's a forum mate around here that has the kakashi on him. You could be..... Sasuke and make a group on the forum, lol.
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Thanks for that wonderful link!
I'm a bit hesitant to change my avatar, though, as I made that one myself. But those penguins are so irresistibly cute. :D
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Adobe returns attention to Flash for Linux
http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6098253.html
Quote:
July 25, 2006 11:03 AM PDT
Adobe has resumed work on a Linux version of its Flash Player and plans to catch the software up to its Windows and Mac OS X equivalent, version 9, the company has said.
"Yes, Adobe is actively working on the Linux version of Flash Player 9," said
Emmy Huang, Flash product manager, in a May blog posting. "We expect to make a pre-release version available on Adobe Labs for early feedback and testing before the end of the year, with the full release expected in early 2007." A better performance for the Linux version is one goal, as is a consistent experience across different operating systems.
An Adobe developer,
Mike Melanson, launched a blog about the Linux Flash work. On Monday, he described the software interfaces he plans on using and asked for input on his choices.
Adobe has revived other desktop utilities before as well. The company skipped version 6 of Adobe Reader but released version 7.
Adobe doesn't release Linux versions of its flagship desktop software products, though. A Novell survey found that
Linux users believe Adobe Photoshop is the most important missing desktop application.
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horray! flash support would just make ubuntu even better
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Early 2007? This is not an honest effort.
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