Flash Player 9 for Linux released today

Finally, the Flash community can actually target the three main OS versions. A first release of Flash 9 arrived more than a half year after the Windows version, but this will change says Adobe officials.

During a Town Hall session at the recent Flash On The Beach conference, Adobe's Flash Team promised that in the future, the Linux version won't be months behind the others such as it has been the latest years. They couldn't promise a simultaneous release with Mac and PC versions because of the complexity of developing for Linux, but the next version should be weeks behind rather than months. Adobe developer Tinic Uro writes today on his blog that "for the first time we build the Windows, Mac and Linux versions on a daily basis from the same code branch", so it really seems like Adobe will keep this promise. He also writes that the version released for Linux today is not exactly a perfect version. It is not feature complete, but should be stable and offer most features from the Mac and Windows version.

This release is officially tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 update 8, RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS) and Novell SUSE 9.x or 10.1. It should work with Firefox 1.5.0.7 and higher; Mozilla 1.7.x and higher; SeaMonkey 1.0.5 and higher, but with the right packages and some tinkering, you can get it to run on any 32 bit Linux platform. 64 bit Linux user will have to wait, but can make the 32 bit version work to some extent.

Something else tha happened two weeks ago that Flashmag did not report on was that the MacIntel version of Flex also went from Beta to final. Go grab this version for better stability.
Click here to download the new Linux Player

 

 

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