Adobe Starts 64-bit Flash Testing With Linux Alpha

“Flash on the Linux platform has traditionally lagged far behind
Windows. Adobe has steadily been closing this gap and has publicly
committed to making Linux a fully-supported first-tier platform
alongside Windows and Mac OS X. During the Flash 9 development
cycle, Adobe reworked the player to make it fully cross-platform
compatible. Since then, they have mostly provided feature parity
between platforms and have consistently made new versions available
under Linux. Adobe has also improved Flash performance on Linux
with version 10 of the player.

“Despite Adobe’s efforts to improve the quality of the Flash
Player user experience for Linux enthusiasts, the lack of a proper
64-bit version created significant problems. In the early days,
64-bit Linux users had to run 32-bit browsers inside of a chroot
jail or use a 32-bit browser linked against a full set of 32-bit
libraries. Eventually, nspluginwrapper emerged and provided
cross-architecture support for 32-bit browser plugins in some
browsers. It worked, but it was a suboptimal solution with a lot of
problems.”

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