[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
Neil Stone wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rob Beard wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> Now I know not everyone is a fan of Flash, but for those of you who are >> you might be interested to know that Adobe Flash Player 9 has been >> released. There is a Mozilla plugin and a standalone player avaliable >> here: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html >> (Click Go get it). >> >> I tried the plugin with Firefox and it seems to work okay. >> >> To install it I untar'd the tar.gz file and copied the libflashplayer.so >> to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and also to my user Firefox plugins >> directory (~/.mozilla/plugins) although thinking about it now it would >> have probably just have been easier to create a link. >> >> Just thought I'd mention it. As I said above, not everyone will be >> interested as it's non-free but it's possible that some of you folks >> might not have heard about it and would want to give it a try? >> >> Rob >> >> >> > > Shame it STILL doesn't support 64bit environments though eh ? > Yeah. It also looks like they only support x86 (not PPC, Sparc etc). Surely it can't be that hard to modifity the code for a different CPU can it? Of course since it's not open source (and says on the page that they won't make it Open Source) we probably won't know. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html