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No Flash 9 Alpha For Linux

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Everyone who has been anxiously awaiting a peek at Adobe's Flash Player 9 for Linux will have to wait until a well-scrubbed beta release becomes available.

Any chance of an alpha look at the in-development, forthcoming, early 2007 release of Flash 9 for Linux turned to a very extinct omega, according to Adobe's Mike Melanson. The lead engineer for the Linux Flash Player posted at the Penguin.SWF blog how the first look at Flash 9 will be through a beta version of it:

Full Story.

History repeats it self

Do you remember when Flash 8 got out, there was "we will make a Flash player for Linux 8", oh no after some time, it became Flash player 8.5, after that Macromedia got "eaten" by Adobe. Some time there was nothing to hear about a Linux version and then we will make a Linux Flash Player 9, and now no alfa. I hope that we who use Linux wil not have to stick to the version 7 until something revolutionary will not happen.
Yes there will be ActionScript 3 support, hura, but there is always a catch, there exists no Flash for Linux (Flash4linux is profiwork unusable), it like have a starship but no fuel. There a lot of webpages which use today in Flash 8, which means were sorry Linux. Yes we who use Linux are just a very small group so why to bother. It is always the same....

So much the better.

I couldn't miss FLASH less (or shockwave, or animated gif's, or blinking text).

At some point in time, the Web decided it wasn't enough to be the ultimate tool for disseminating information, but had to be mindless entertainment as well. Been kind of downhill from that point on.

You are right, all the

You are right, all the banners, animations useless pieces of junk. But when you make educational CD for kids and you want them have on linux you come to a problem. Not everybody knows how to install wine and how to use it. But you also have the point.

Thats the down side, that

Thats the down side, that Flash is used for annoying banners, useless info a etc. But in core is a quite powerfull technology, I am using it for making educational CD for kids and it would by nice to have them natively also in linux.

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