Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 18th Nov 2008 20:35 UTC, submitted by abraxas
"An alpha version of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux operating systems was released on 11/17/2008 and is available for download. This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux distributions and removes the need for 32-bit emulation." The pre-release can be downloaded from Adobe Lab Downloads.
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Adobe's stuff isn't FOSS, of course. If someone releases FOSS that is buggy and immature, others can fix it. Only Adobe can fix their own code.
The good news, though, is that since Adobe cares about x86-64 for Windows and Mac, they'll be highly motivated to fix any bugs found, and many of the bugs will be platform-independent.
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I guess it depends on what you mean by "extra work and heart ache", but all I had to do was extract the .tar.gz into ~/.opera/plugins and restart Opera.
I had to do
$sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins/
but result is the same - working like it should be looong time ago
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should read something like "Adobe resleases Alpha/Pre release 64 bit version of flash for linux"
adobe's flash suport with linux has been bad in the past (10 has been pretty good though so far). given past history though, installing anything labled Alpha that has to do with flash and linux just sounds like extra work and heart ache.