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Re: [LUG] Flash 9 beta

 

Neil Stone wrote:
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> Rob Beard wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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> 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


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