64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha 172
Luchio writes "Finally, a little bit of respect from Adobe with this alpha release of the Adobe Flash Player 10 that was made available for all Linux 64-bit enthusiasts! As noted, 'this is a prerelease version,' so handle with care. Just remove any existing Flash player and extract the new .so file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (or /usr/lib/opera/plugins)."
Re:Downtime is the name of the game (Score:5, Interesting)
Man, Flash Player locks up the CPU and crashes more often with gold releases than most alpha software. I think you'd have to be sadist to run software in alpha for Linux from Adobe.
Really? Honestly I haven't ever had any real issues with Flash since I've been running the 64bit release of about a year ago.
Even before that I had minimal issues running the 32bit version under 64bit Firefox via NSPluginWrapper.
I'm running Gentoo Linux and it works fine. No crashing, no lagging aside from trying to run YouTube in fullscreen doesn't always work out so swell (24" LCD @ 1920x1200 resolution). I suppose that's the lack of H/W acceleration.
I also don't have any issues using Adobe Reader. Maybe I am just lucky?
Re:Old news, slight revision, still broken Hulu. (Score:4, Interesting)
Now Netflix, that's a different story. Videos are unwatchably glitchy unless I use IE, where they play fine (yes, on Windows).
Re:Downtime is the name of the game (Score:3, Interesting)
On Fedora & Ubuntu I had a lot of issues with the 32-bit plugin, especially run using the wrapper for x64 Firefox.
Adobe Reader is fine for me, but it's a security nightmare compared to other PDF readers.
Adobe Reader (Score:1, Interesting)
Now all we need is Adobe Reader 64-bit please?
Re:This isn't news... (Score:2, Interesting)
64-bit enthusiasts?
x86-64 is THE de-facto architecture. Save the enthusiast label for all the retro x86 steam punk guys.
no kidding. I can't stand Flash. Heck, the 32-bit Linux version is barely passable. The web would be so much better off if people just used open standards for web sites. With javascript and CSS, you can do all sorts of cool stuff and it'll run perfectly on any platform -- even my PowerPC Linux box.
How's the PowerPC Linux port of Flash coming, Adobe? right...
Re:Downtime is the name of the game (Score:2, Interesting)
I develop Flex application on Linux right now, using Intellij IDEA + Flex SDK from Adobe.
Quite complex GUI application, with numerous connected graphs, grids, sliders - one that would be just impossible to develop using AJAX or whatnot.
Zero problems so far. Everything works properly, including Flash debugging in 32-bit SeaMonkey (there is no 64-bit debug version of Flash on neither platform, so 64 bit is for usual browsing). The app is working, I'm going to release it today or tomorrow - yes, Flash application + server part on Perl with JSON bindings, developed 100% on Linux. It would be masochistic to develop it using "HTML5" or whatever buzzword you wanted to use as a replacement for Flash. Flash is here and it works - I don't care what your theories say
Re:This isn't news... (Score:4, Interesting)
The amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc ports [debian.org] all seem to be coming along...
Oh wait, you wanted _Adobe_ to do something about it? I'm pretty sure they fired the only developer who understood their codebase years ago.
Re:Old news, slight revision, still broken Hulu. (Score:3, Interesting)
The only answer I come up with is that they're blacklisting linux x64 on the site. The only sense I can make of that is that they're going to migrate to a desktop client only model (to lock out other sites and devices like boxee and playon) And they're starting with the smallest portion of their users. Add this to all the talk about subscriptions and it sounds very plausible...
Of course I could be wrong and there could be a benign explanation.