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CRN: The Perils Of Porting To Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 29, 2006

“For those of you waiting anxiously for the Flash Player to be
ported to Linux, here’s a blog post by Adobe’s Mike Melanson, who
is leading the project, that may encourage you to cool your
jets:

“First, we take the existing Flash Player 7 Linux code along
with the current revision of the main Player codebase, modify the
Linux-specific stuff as needed, and get the plugin to compile in
the first place…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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