Making Gnash: a well-deserved name?
Gnash is the Free Software Foundation’s alternative Apple Flash player. Version 0.8 is the third alpha release, and frankly, it rocks! It is also one of the first projects to be covered by the GPLv3.
About Gnash
Some history
Originally based on GameSWF, it is a reimplementation of Macromedia/Adobe Flash version 7, with some stuff from Flash 8/9 added. It is, right now, the most advanced free software implementation of Flash. And, as a matter of fact, it actually works well in many cases.
GNASH 0.8 is out.
About version 0.8 (overall, alpha 3 of Gnash)
What’s new:
* it can be compiled with ffmpeg+SDL support
* many Flash 8.5 (now called Flash 9) methods have been added (better compatibility)
* Cygnal: a media server that can handle Flash streams (however, I can’t see if it is actually developed)
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"alternative Apple Flash player"
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"Alternative Flash Player"
Yeah and it would be included in Ubuntu Gutsy by default.