Flash 9 for Linux Released!

mattisking on 17 January 2007 - 13:21 · 20 comments & 14901 views

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The title says it all. About a year since Flash 9 was released for Windows and Mac, Linux desktop users can finally... use MySpace... well, there's lots of benefits in Flash 9. Even if you don't care for MySpace or YouTube or virtually any decent video site these days, a version of Flash hasn't been released for Linux since 7.0 and most would argue the last "stable" version was probably Flash 6. Go get it!

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#1 DarkGashX on 17 Jan 2007 - 13:26

Awesome news! Took them long enough! I don't care for MySpace (infact I hate it) but I do you use YouTube so all the same, this is very welcome!

Cheers mattisking for the heads up!

(1 reply) #2 The_Decryptor on 17 Jan 2007 - 13:37

Woo!, been waiting for this for a while, glad to see Adobe did it (but can they keep it updated?)

#2.1 drygnfyre on 24 Jan 2007 - 03:02

I hope so. Although Flash 9 is a huge leap over 7. I finally upgraded today.

#3 CaKeY on 17 Jan 2007 - 13:37

Great news. Grabbing it now.

(2 replies) #4 Quick Reply on 17 Jan 2007 - 13:41

Needs PowerPC build! (For older Macs running Linux and for PS3 Linux ). Also needs AMD64 builds!

#4.1 markjensen on 17 Jan 2007 - 14:13

Yeah, that is what sucks about "closed source" providers. You are really at their mercy (which applies to The_Decryptor's comment above about keeping current). They release it for what they choose, and when they choose. No ability for others to work on it or compile it for different platforms.

I have used the beta version that was posted in the *nix section in November, so I will update to final as soon as I get back home.

#4.2 The_Decryptor on 17 Jan 2007 - 14:38

Yeah, the community can't do the builds for all the odd platforms people use (where's my Sparc?, and more importantly x64?)

#5 Joseph21 on 17 Jan 2007 - 15:05

YES!, now i need to l2: oath of blood and i can fully tranfer to linux

#6 Bamsebjørn on 17 Jan 2007 - 15:09

About time too...

#7 GatorV on 17 Jan 2007 - 15:26

WOW, good news indeed, but I agree with mark, sucks the "closed source"...

#8 evileye on 17 Jan 2007 - 15:38

Yay!

#9 rajputwarrior on 17 Jan 2007 - 17:20

woo, hopefully they put this in the wii so the performane for youtube and other video sites will be better

#10 black_death on 17 Jan 2007 - 17:35

w00t finally!

#11 NeoTrunks on 17 Jan 2007 - 19:37

So they finally took that little bit of time to get this out through the door.

#12 Draje on 17 Jan 2007 - 20:30

Transparency still doesn't work. I wonder if it is a browser issue. I would look at the source to see what I could do, but it's stinky proprietary.

#13 Kreuger on 17 Jan 2007 - 20:58

That's great but whats the update since the last beta? Is everything pretty solid? I've had a lot of videos crash lately.

#14 chavo on 17 Jan 2007 - 21:48

I've been away for a couple of months and just upgraded to the last beta. I had a lot of sites not recognizing the correct flash version and saying I need to update to Flash 8 or 9. Also still have problems using this with multiple tabs in Konqueror, when I switch to a different tab and then back sometimes the movie stops, particularly at YouTube. I'll have to grab this version as so on as I get home.

#15 FrozenSpoon on 17 Jan 2007 - 21:56

I truly hate Flash videos. Even the Windows Flash player won't Vsync them. It's 2007, Adobe, you can do better.

#16 pixels on 17 Jan 2007 - 22:55

Woohoo!

#17 Shiranui on 18 Jan 2007 - 00:17

Wicked!

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