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Adobe Finalizes Flash 9 for Linux

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

January 17, 2007, 2:29 PM

Adobe on Wednesday released the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux, bringing its multimedia offering for the open source operating system up to date with Windows and Mac OS X. Linux developers can now build rich Internet applications using Adobe's Flex 2 SDK.

Flash Player 9 for Linux includes better memory utilization, advanced features for graphics, video and text, as well as ActionScript Virtual Machine 2, which Adobe recently handed over to the Mozilla Foundation for a project called Tamarin. "Now the Linux community has full access to the high volume of Flash content and applications available on the Internet today, bringing Linux developers and users to the forefront of the Web 2.0 experience," remarked Emmy Huang, senior product manager at Adobe.

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By fewt

posted Jan 21, 2007 - 8:54 AM

Good news.

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By ds0934

posted Jan 18, 2007 - 9:58 AM

How about Flash Pro for Linux? It's one thing to be able to view it, but it would be nice to create it also.

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By Frostek

posted Jan 18, 2007 - 2:27 PM

That would be pretty cool to try out.

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By ds0934

posted Jan 19, 2007 - 9:49 AM

With MS closing in to eat their lunch, you'd think Adobe would start getting more aggressive and enterprising. But they do their typical paranoid knee-jerk thing every time. Releasing products for Linux platforms would help them hedge their risks against new offerings from MS.

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By Scary Guy

posted Jan 18, 2007 - 4:43 AM

Still a proprietary format not recognized by the W3C ( http://www.w3c.org ). Just like PDF, it's crap.

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By tangentlin

posted Jan 21, 2007 - 7:55 PM

W3C is full of slow-speed academia, and look how much progress HTML/XHTML has done the past few years? Almost zilch! Adobe was a big backer of W3C's SVG and that format just failed miserable and only fit itself in niche market like GIS and limited mobiles. I was too a W3C advocate till their efforts are so far behind Flash. If you are ever a UI developer you would know what I mean, otherwise, your statement is purely, unfortunately just academic.

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By Banquo

posted Jan 18, 2007 - 12:20 AM

Just installed it on Fedora and it works great. Firefox began using it right away; finally those flash sites that always gave me problems or would not work at all are fully usable now.

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By pafinator11

posted Jan 17, 2007 - 4:21 PM

Finally! I've been waiting for this for over a year now.

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By mikeeberhart

posted Jan 17, 2007 - 3:09 PM

I have been looking forward to this for quite some time, especially since an up-to-date Linux version of the Flash Player hasn't been around for a couple versions. Better late then never.

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