[Lancaster] Question - Lancaster Linux User Group Meeting at

[David Jenkinson]

Darren Poulson wrote:

> Flash, fireworks and Linux don't exactly mix I'm afraid. You can get a flash 
> plugin working under linux in most browsers but thats about it. Also, (at 
> least in my opinion) flash and its ilk are not really any good.

Many of the sites that depend on flash are now asking for flash8 or even 
flash9. The latest version available for linux is 7.

And thats only available for x86_32. Almost my whole system is 64bit 
now, except for firefox which I use pretty much constantly because 
theres no flashplayer for x86_64... grrrr

Macromedia say theres no 64bit plugin yet because the debugging code in 
their sources isn't 64bit ready. Surely if this had been an open source 
project from the start it would have been designed to work under more 
than just an intel. What a shame one of the biggest web standards that 
could have been is proprietary. (Won't go into discussion of whether its 
actually necessary :-)