Linux Now an Equal Flash Player 437
nerdyH writes "As recently as 2007, Linux users waited six months for Flash 9 to arrive. Now, with Microsoft pushing its Silverlight alternative, Adobe is touting the universality of its Flash format, which has penetrated '98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops,' it claims. And, it today released Flash 10 for Linux concurrently with other platforms. Welcome to the future." Handily enough, Real Networks released this summer RealPlayer 11 for Linux, the first release for which they've included a .deb package, and offers nightly builds of their Helix player, for which Linux is one of the supported platforms.
RealPlayer? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:yay competition! (Score:5, Funny)
Now make them do the same with Photoshop.
Tomorrow MS will announce that Windows Paint runs under wine!
Re:RealPlayer? (Score:5, Funny)
Outstanding!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:RealPlayer? (Score:3, Funny)
It's [buffering...] a media [buffering...] player
Re:RealPlayer? (Score:5, Funny)
Go Home Silverlight (Score:5, Funny)
Competition is good and all, but this is just annoying. It only exists to muddy the waters.
I'm just waiting for MS to announce that they will no longer speak english, but will communicate only in Anglush-Sharp. A language in which every noun is copyrighted by Microsoft and only MS approved verbs will generate an intelligible response.
BRAVO! (Score:2, Funny)
Well done Adobe! Now we're talking. Help us help YOU keep Silverlight still-born.
Re:The future? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm pretty sure you already do run it NAIVELY it you think that you need it to be 64 bit!
Re:RealPlayer? (Score:5, Funny)
What's that?
It's just a story we tell to scare the kids.
Re:The future? (Score:3, Funny)
In practice, none of those things work well with Ubuntu. None of them are easy to set up. Basically, flash is still unavailable to the majority of Ubuntu users.
Yay RealPlayer! (Score:3, Funny)
Just what I've always wanted, RealPlayer on a computer that I own! Can we have QuickTime too?
Re:No 64-bit (Score:5, Funny)
The kind who would think the Flash player was a good idea in the first place.
Re:RealPlayer? (Score:5, Funny)
In Linux, you can view *.rm files with rm command.
Re:RealPlayer? (Score:4, Funny)
Real Buffering [krytosvirus.com]
Re:yay competition! (Score:3, Funny)
Tomorrow MS will announce that Windows Paint runs under wine!
Only if they use licensed technology provided by Novell for maximum compatibility.