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  Macromedia Flash Player for Linux
Linked byDavid Adams on 2004-05-28 02:42:00 UTC, submitted by Tudy Parghel
Already available for the Windows and Macintosh platforms, the new Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linuxis available for download and will be automatically bundled with the next batch of Linux systems distributed by Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and Turbolinux.

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 Quality
By Anonymous (IP: ---.c3-0.lex-ubr1.sbo-lex.ma.cable.rcn.com) - Posted on 2004-05-28 02:55:11
"We wanted to make sure that Flash Player 7 for Linux would give the same performance standards as our other versions,"
If they are referring to their Windows Flash Player 7, then the linux crowd should be expecting a buggy piece of software.
 Open Source
By Gregory (IP: ---.netfirms.com) - Posted on 2004-05-28 03:21:29
Pardon me if I‘m wrong (this is an honest, innocent question) but wouldn‘t this be the only proprietory application in Redhat? I thought they were 100% Open Source...
 Licensing
By Anonymous (IP: ---.sothfd01.mi.comcast.net) - Posted on 2004-05-28 03:25:05
Looking at this page:http://www.macromedia.com/support/shockwave/info/licensing/
it seems that Fedora would not be able to distribute it. When they are refering to redhat, they are probably refering to RH‘s new commercial desktop offering that comes with the JVM etc...
 Yeah!
By Leo (IP: ---.gv.shawcable.net) - Posted on 2004-05-28 04:59:32
Thanks Macromedia! I‘ve always had performance problems with Flash on Linux so I can‘t wait to try this one out.
 FLEX
By BR (IP: ---.224.147.73.Dial1.Cincinnati1.Level3.net) - Posted on 2004-05-28 05:10:55
I‘m thinking this was done in part because of Macromedia‘s FLEX and RIA‘s. Coldfusion I believe is already written in Java. Linux is strong in servers, and Macromedia needs to be on both ends in order for it to work.
 I try to avoid using Flash
By Andrew (IP: ---.fbx.proxad.net) - Posted on 2004-05-28 06:06:34
it‘s the proprietary aspect of Flash that bothers me most; BTW these news sound just like a press release from Macromedia, I also find that somewhat bothersome.
 Adobe Acrobat Reader
By Andrea (IP: ---.pool8016.interbusiness.it) - Posted on 2004-05-28 06:15:08
Good news!
Hope Adobe will port its 6.0Reader to Linux too.
Don‘t like current 5.0 implementation.
 PPC
By Tobi (IP: ---.dip.t-dialin.net) - Posted on 2004-05-28 06:25:19
and it still doesn‘t work on PPC
 RE: I try to avoid using Flash
By JH (IP: ---.res.east.verizon.net) - Posted on 2004-05-28 06:58:26
it‘s the proprietary aspect of Flash that bothers me most;
So you prefer some other open web animation format that‘s installed in 95% of browsers?
SWF has been an open spec since, oh, 1998. Download it yourself if you want ...
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/licensing/fileformat/
Ah, 1998 ... I guess some enterprising FOSS software developer could have beat Macromedia to the punch back then ... you know, at a time when there wasn‘t even a usable FOSS word processor, web browser or e-mail client, let alone a vector animation platform!
Personally I‘m glad Macromedia pays its developers to create and distribute for free the Linux Flash plug-in, without which my Linux machine couldn‘t even fully function as a web browser.
And Macromedia is considering porting Flash, Freehand et al. to Linux, starting by working to make sure they all run under Codeweavers. That‘s a lot more than you can say for Adobe, Corel, Real, Apple or Microsoft.
 AMD64
By mieses (IP: ---.sna.onnet.us.uu.net) - Posted on 2004-05-28 07:00:03
no amd64 version either
 Intel centric world
By Fredk (IP: ---.w81-49.abo.wanadoo.fr) - Posted on 2004-05-28 07:24:41
It‘s x86 only.
 Be FREE!
By Yuval Tanny (IP: ---.barak.net.il) - Posted on 2004-05-28 07:48:11
The best GPL flash player:
http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/
 testing ...
By earthworm (IP: ---.server.ntli.net) - Posted on 2004-05-28 09:03:38
I was looking at this site:
http://www.sky.com/skyplus/launcher
Is it b0rked for anyone else under linux with Flashplayer 6/7? I had hoped this release would fix things, no joy. I get a big chunk of what looks like a GTK+ widget plastered accross the flash animation???
fedora core 1/2, mozilla firefox
 @ andrew
By raver31 (IP: 194.74.230.---) - Posted on 2004-05-28 10:54:08
you are bothered by the proprietary aspect of macromedia ? why ? do you only ever use oss on your system ?
There is a place for oss, propretary and commercial products to exist together on linux.
do not cut of your nose to spite your face
 oh and another thing
By raver31 (IP: 194.74.230.---) - Posted on 2004-05-28 10:58:02
for linux to suceed, there is a real need for commercial companies to port their products over, AND, for the linux userbase, (I will not call them a community anymore, as the community is falling apart), to use these products without yapping and moaning about it.
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