“Adobe skipped a version of Flash for Linux and released stable
versions of the Flash 9 player for Windows and Mac OS X long before
the beta of Flash 9 to Linux users. Paul Betlem, senior director of
engineering for Adobe, explained why the process is taking so
long.“Betlem says that several factors have contributed to the
tardiness of Flash on Linux. The primary problem, says Betlem, is
the complexity of porting the Flash player to Linux due to
differing libraries used for sound, video, and type on different
Linux distributions…”
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