[GRLUG] Ubuntu Firefox/Flash problems

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 03:10:13PM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> Too bad Adobe isn't very co-operative!  Seriously...  Flash works
> better under Wine than natively because they put more work into their
> windows version.  The Linux version of flash depends on an ancient C++
> library, OSS, runs only on i386, and talks bare X11.  If they were
> serious about supporting Linux at all, we'd see an SDL version for at
> least 10 archs.

There's good news.  Adobe has someone rewriting the Linux version of 
Flash Player 9 using new libraries and interfaces.  I found out an 
interview somewhere.  I recall that a beta version is expected early 
next year.

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/

-- 
Jeff DeFouw <jeffd at i2k.com>