“The stable Flash Player plugin for Linux is crusty old version
7–trailing more than two calendar years, two major revisions, and
one corporate buyout behind the Windows and Mac offerings. But now
Adobe has finally unveiled a beta release of Flash Player 9 for
Linux. Was it worth the wait? And should you install it now, or
hold off a little longer for the official, stable product
instead?“The beta is available for download–without registration–from
Adobe Labs. The downloads are ELF binaries for 32-bit x86 Linux
exclusively, and require ALSA for audio…”
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