“A free Flash viewer is one of the last major gaps in GNU/Linux
desktop functionality, so last week’s news that Gnash, the free
Flash player, had reached the stage where it could play YouTube and
Lulu.tv videos seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately, it
was.“The report seems to have originated on the project blog, where
a cautious statement in the Readme file for the recently released
version 0.8–described as a ‘third alpha’–became less qualified.
By the time the news reached the online media, all qualifications
had vanished…”
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