Thursday, 18 January 2007

Adobe Finalises Flash 9 for Linux

Adobe has made available Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux. Adobe Flash Player 9 delivers a consistent cross-platform experience and extends performance and features to the broadest set of developers and users to date. Additionally, Linux developers can create, test and deploy Rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the Linux platform using the free Adobe Flex 2 Software Developers Kit (SDK), Adobe Flash Player 9 and the free Flex Data Services 2 Express, as per a statement issued by the company.

According to Adobe, the release is officially tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 update 8, RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS) and Novell SUSE 9.x or 10.1. It should work with Firefox 1.5.0.7 and higher; Mozilla 1.7.x and higher; SeaMonkey 1.0.5 and higher, but with the right packages and some tinkering, you can get it to run on any 32 bit Linux platform.