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Adobe Releases 64-bit Flash (Alpha) for Linux

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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RE[3]: missleading

by lemur2 on Tue 18th Nov 2008 23:02 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: missleading"

Member since:
2007-02-17

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.

Recent releases of Firefox now work once again with Gnash.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

If you want a flash plugin for firefox 3 that: (1) is FOSS, (2) works with most sites, including Youtube, and (3) works natively in 64-bit versions, then Gnash is perhaps the FOSS alternative to Adobe that may suit you.

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RE[4]: missleading

by Liquidator on Wed 19th Nov 2008 07:17 in reply to "RE[3]: missleading"

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2007-03-04

Last time I tried GNASH, I had a black square instead of the Flash animation.

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RE[5]: missleading

by Almindor on Wed 19th Nov 2008 08:48 in reply to "RE[4]: missleading"

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2006-01-16

The truth is in the middle with Gnash. I'm on FreeBSD/AMD64 so I have no choice. I was surprised how well Gnash works lately the 0.8.4 release works on some youtube videos (it doesn't support h.264 yet) and most other youtube-likes. It still has problems with complicated actionscript sites but it crashes a lot less (less than Flash 9 did for me in linux).

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