NewsForge: Gnash, The Free Flash Player, Makes Progress

“The Gnash project has been developing a free software Flash
player since December. Filling one of the last major gaps on the
GNU/Linux desktop, it is one of the Free Software Foundation’s
high-priority projects. We covered the project several months ago,
when compiling the code was problematic. Now that Gnash has reached
the 0.7.1 version, the player is still rough, but enough has been
done to give us an indication of what the final version might be
like.

“Rob Savoye, the project administrator, explains that Gnash was
originally based on GameSWF, a similar project. However, he
stresses that, ‘in it’s current form, it’s a new project. A lot of
portability issues have been solved, so Gnash now builds and runs
on many more GNU/Linux distributions and BSD variants, including
64-bit systems. This has brought Flash abilities to platforms that
had none…'”

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