Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Linux Beta Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Linux Beta Released

Adobe's just released their first beta of Flash Player 10.3 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems. But does it contain anything interesting on the Linux side? Let's find out...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTE4NQ

[d2kx]

Before anyone asks: no 64-bit support. Business as usual for Adobe.

[fabioamd87]

A linux flashplayer limitation that not everyone know is support for webcam.

[cl333r]

Before anyone asks: no 64-bit support. Business as usual for Adobe.

You're asking too much of Adobe, 64-bit CPUs only appeared around 2003, so they had less than 10 years to get their act together.

[Pahanilmanlintu]

It's been a long time since i've last seen an article comparing Gnash's and Lightspark's compatibility coverage to official Flash releases... I wonder if anything's changed in that respect? So far i only tried gnash once a couple of years ago and it couldn't play most of the content i tried.

[patstew]

There is a beta 64-bit player actually. http://download.macromedia.com/pub/l..._111710.tar.gz

[dagger]

There is a beta 64-bit player actually. http://download.macromedia.com/pub/l..._111710.tar.gz

That's very old pre-release. Nothing to do with 10.3 beta recently released.

[patstew]

That's very old pre-release. Nothing to do with 10.3 beta recently released.

I know it's older than these betas, I was just pointing it out to the people above who seem unaware that there is a 64-bit player at all. It still reports as version 10.3.162.29, though it doesn't support vdpau.

[diegocg]

The 64 bit was updated for last time in November, 30. So they have a 64 bit codebase, and they have released 10.2 and 10.3 beta, but not updates in the 64 bit codebase.

How many years have I been running a 64 bit pure system? I don't even remember. I really hope that HTML5 kills Flash. They don't deserve to be in the software bussiness.

[deanjo]

Should also mention that there is also a Flash player 11.0 preview available here:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flas...incubator.html