Mike Chambers

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FlashPlayer 7 for Linux Beta

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We are about to start a beta for the Linux version of Flash Player 7. If you would like to be added to the beta, please send your name and email address to:

UPDATE : Thanks for all of the beta requests. We now have enough people for the current beta. I will post here if / when we expand the beta.

As far as an eta for a public release, I don’t have an exact date, but I can say it will be sooner rather than later.

Written by mikechambers

March 9th, 2004 at 1:16 pm

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  1. flash for linux! yes! can’t wait to try it. we do lots and lots of flash sites for the film/music industry. I’m the linux guy, always pushing for compatability and accessibitly. Would love to try it out!

    Jon Bauer

    9 Mar 04 at 1:40 pm

  2. That’s excellent news for Linux users! Kudos to MM for supporting Flash on the Linux platform.

    Once the public release is out, I’d be one more significant milestone towards migrating to a fully Linux-driven machine (then I’d just be waiting on the Flash IDE being ported to Linux).

    Jim Cheng

    9 Mar 04 at 1:58 pm

  3. Is there ever going to be a Shockwave player for linux?

    daveg

    9 Mar 04 at 8:39 pm

  4. Oh guys, this is great. I’m waiting this for a long time…

    great..:-)

    Carlos Renato F. Vendramini

    9 Mar 04 at 9:35 pm

  5. It would be great if Macromedia made a Flash and Shockwave version for FreeBSD.

    me

    10 Mar 04 at 9:21 am

  6. Analista de Sistema

    bruno piaui

    10 Mar 04 at 9:25 am

  7. Great!!!

    i want the source-code

    Juliano

    10 Mar 04 at 9:45 am

  8. Great!!!

    I want source-code, I will be set free?

    Juliano

    10 Mar 04 at 9:46 am

  9. Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!
    Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!
    Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!Great!!!

    anton chekov

    10 Mar 04 at 11:21 am

  10. Yeah, I agree - it would be great to have both Flash and Shockwave for open source operating systems (not just Linux; FreeBSD ;)

    You can release them under the BSD license so you don’t have to release the source code if you don’t want to =)

    d3n

    10 Mar 04 at 12:30 pm

  11. Realmente foi a melhor coisa que a Macromedia ja fez até agora!!! Estou super ancioso!!!

    Nota 10 pra Macromedia :-)

    Diogo

    10 Mar 04 at 1:55 pm

  12. Yeeeeeeeeeeeessssssss!!!
    : )
    Very, Very, Very, Very Happy!!!

    Congratulations macromedia!!!

    Drusian

    10 Mar 04 at 4:11 pm

  13. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The World is FREE !!!!!!!!

    Daniel Armbrust

    10 Mar 04 at 6:37 pm

  14. Wait a minute fellas… I think that in this case will not have delivery of source-code, but just binaries that will be tested. As far as I know, Macromedia Flash Player isn’t Open Source. It is free distributable only. Am I wrong?

    Carlos Vendramini

    10 Mar 04 at 8:21 pm

  15. You’re right Carlos, unless Macromedia is preparing a big GPL surprise.

    Is it just me or there’s an unusual amount of Brazilians in here?

    Juan Carlos Castro y Castro

    10 Mar 04 at 8:57 pm

  16. heheehhe…

    Yes, Juan Carlos, seems that there are so many Brazilians which loves Flash Player, Shockwave and so on….

    Inclunding me, of course..:-)

    Carlos Vendramini

    11 Mar 04 at 1:57 am

  17. BTW, we love Linux, too… :-)

    Carlos Vendramii

    11 Mar 04 at 2:00 am

  18. Please release an amd64 binary!

    mieses

    11 Mar 04 at 5:37 am

  19. great?

    sorry, why does it take so long? the flash player code has been ported once (or twice). can macromedia not just keep it portable and release different platform versions simultaneously?

    linux user

    12 Mar 04 at 10:37 am

  20. While you’re at it, please take a look at the Mozilla slowness problems. The current Flash Player is incredibly slow with Mozilla/Firefox. This should not be.

    Bass

    16 Mar 04 at 3:40 am

  21. The mozilla slowness is a known bug that will not be fixed. If you trawl bugzilla you will see that that a trade off was made:
    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124643

    Sitsofe

    16 Mar 04 at 5:15 am

  22. I’m using flash player 6.0.81 with Opera 7.50 Preview 3 Linux. Seems to be greater, but I have one question about Flash transparency feature issue, is it a Opera development question or is it a Flash Player issue? Flash transparency seems that doesn’t works with Opera.

    Carlos Vendramini

    17 Mar 04 at 8:09 pm

  23. I requested to be a beta tester but haven’t heard. So I take it I missed out.
    I do have a question. Will FP7 be GTK2 compatible? Currently my browser crashes if I try to print using a control on a flash page. Running in debug it seems a call is being made that was dropped in GTK2

    Patrick

    19 Mar 04 at 10:17 am

  24. My company just went through all the hoops (one phone call and four emails) required to get an inteligent response from Macromedia’s technical support. Essentially asking when and if the player 7 would be available and could we have an alpha or beta ASAP as we develop software used on hundreds of linux machines (as well as windows) and part of our software now uses Flash MX Pro and thus needs player 7 support.

    Guess what they said? [sumarised] “Lots of other people want this. It would violate company policy to say when and if a player 7 for linux will be available, but we will add you to the beta when and if there is one.”

    Then I find this website saying there was a beta thirteen days ago! grrrr.

    So if there is any chance of beta testing soon, we really could do with being in on the list, so we can make the business decision of whether to continue developing with flash or stopping development in favour of an alternative solution such as DHTML.

    Simon Moore

    22 Mar 04 at 7:58 am

  25. I have now been added to the beta. Thank you. It is going well.

    Simon Moore

    23 Mar 04 at 6:06 am

  26. I see a lot of people yelling about the IDE of flash (which is not the same as the player) they’re waiting for to be published for Linux.

    That’s a very good idea, but nothing is keeping you for not using the Flash IDE under linux at this moment.

    Don’t wait! Come out that cave people!

    Go to this webpage en find out about the crossover plugin which makes it possible to use all windows software mentioned below whitout any emulating directly under Linux!

    Don’t take my word for it, check it out yourself:

    dreamweaver MX (http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/supported_apps/?id=19)

    Flash MX
    http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/supported_apps/?id=74

    FlashPlayer 7
    http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxplugin/supported_apps/?id=57

    Photoshop 7
    http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/supported_apps/?id=8

    Office XP (and the latest Internet Explorer)
    http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/

    cymon

    24 Mar 04 at 7:20 am

  27. I second the call for an AMD64 binary. It’s can’t be that hard can it?

    andrew williams

    27 Mar 04 at 8:27 am

  28. Sign me up!! Have been waiting for this a long time…
    Anything I can do to help this project, tell me.

    Mark

    mark van reijn

    27 Mar 04 at 9:34 am

  29. Two items:

    1) The Linux PPC community is growing very quickly, and we have had a huge petition for Linux/PPC binaries of the flash plugin. Please please please release them. If you need help compiling and testing, contact me.

    2) As maintainer of the Konqueror plugin support, I deal with flash plugin on a regular basis. It would be really nice to have a contact at Macromedia with whom I can work or communicate with from time to time to resolve various issues. So far my email is either ignored or I get told off by people at Macromedia. I have information that would be of benefit to flash plugin developers too (such as memory errors in the plugin).

    George Staikos

    28 Mar 04 at 5:07 am

  30. This is the missing link I’ve been searching since the release of Flash MX2004 Pro. I hope it supports everything (including all the flash components!) Yeeeeeeaaaaaah!

    Arnold Villasanta

    30 Mar 04 at 4:19 am

  31. Thanks

    suma

    31 Mar 04 at 3:06 pm

  32. Please release an amd64 binary for Linux !

    David

    5 Apr 04 at 8:41 am

  33. I want too AMD64 binary for Linux!!!

    Zhao-Ji

    12 Apr 04 at 5:02 am

  34. Is there any news on the flash 7 beta? any predictions for a release date on Linux?

    claudette

    14 Apr 04 at 10:01 am

  35. When would the final version be available ?

    benoit

    14 Apr 04 at 12:03 pm

  36. My company uses linux. We access a site that is switching to flash to provide a user interface for data, and version 7 is required. We’d very much like to get the beta to ensure it will work for us. Thanks.

    Darren Croft

    21 Apr 04 at 3:07 pm

  37. Hi, I ‘d like to use flash player 7 for linux. I want to know if I will be able to make applications for linux that opens FLV files on the run.

    thanks!

    Ronaldo Richieri

    22 Apr 04 at 6:48 pm

  38. My firm participated extensively in the beta for Flash player 6 for Linux, and we would love the opportunity to test the new software, though I understand we’re fairly late into the beta process. Still, if it is possible, I would be happy to provide engineering resources to help test on the dozen or so Linux distributions that we run in-house, as well as our commercial FireCast OS distribution for kiosks and digital signs.

    Bill Gerba

    27 Apr 04 at 10:42 pm

  39. Please, include a version for amd64…

    Thank you.

    Alfred

    29 Apr 04 at 6:14 pm

  40. Hi,
    How and when can I test the “FlashPlayer 7 for Linux Beta” ?
    I must use IE on win32 to work with my interface.

    Can you tell me where I can find the “FlashPlayer 7 for LinuxBeta”

    franckym
    FR

    franckym

    7 May 04 at 3:41 am

  41. When you release final flash player 7 on linux?

    Lorenzo Sicilia

    7 May 04 at 11:54 am

  42. It’s ABOUT TIME. The Windows version came out almost a year ago, in August. Version 6 for Linux has been buggy and unreliable, at best, but it is almost a requirement to browse pages created by abnoxious web developers that are obsessed with Flash content.

    No offense, guys, but I almost wish there were a viable, multiplatform, SVG alternative to Flash, so that we wouldn’t have to wait for Macromedia to come around a year after they release the Windows version and finally fix their Linux software. Sure, we are a minority (representing less than 10% of the Desktop), but Linux is growing, and relying on companies like Macromedia to release products like Flash 7 really limits growth and adoption of the Linux desktop.

    Well, anyway, even with my ranting I wish to say thanks for working on Flash 7. Please, put a bit more effort into Linux development as well though.

    Waiting for Flash 7

    10 May 04 at 10:57 am

  43. It’s ABOUT TIME. The Windows version came out almost a year ago, in August. Version 6 for Linux has been buggy and unreliable, at best, but it is almost a requirement to browse pages created by abnoxious web developers that are obsessed with Flash content.

    No offense, guys, but I almost wish there were a viable, multiplatform, SVG alternative to Flash, so that we wouldn’t have to wait for Macromedia to come around a year after they release the Windows version and finally fix their Linux software. Sure, we are a minority (representing less than 10% of the Desktop), but Linux is growing, and relying on companies like Macromedia to release products like Flash 7 really limits growth and adoption of the Linux desktop.

    Well, anyway, even with my ranting I wish to say thanks for working on Flash 7. Please, put a bit more effort into Linux development as well though.

    I couldn’t help to repeat it.

    Pretending for Flash 7

    11 May 04 at 5:28 am

  44. What’s the word on the player?

    WeeNut

    14 May 04 at 2:08 am

  45. Please include a version for Linux/AMD64!!!

    Thomas Lund Dideriksen

    15 May 04 at 11:00 am

  46. I would GREATLY appreciate a Flash plugin for linux ppc. That is the platform of choice for a growing number of people.

    Trevor N. Teuscher

    19 May 04 at 4:54 pm

  47. Macromedia es igual que Microsoft.
    Basta de monopolio.

    Alejandro

    21 May 04 at 5:37 pm

  48. Come on people, there are a heck of a lot of us using Linux on PPC, why do you ensist on ignoring us?

    Jason Warm

    21 Jun 04 at 9:21 am

  49. Please, please release a projector / stand-alone player for linux version 7.

    Is there any way to loby Macromedia for support?

    Chris Miles

    23 Jul 04 at 7:43 pm

  50. Oh, I almost forgot - Great job with flash player 7 for linux! Keep up the good work.

    Is a projector a simple wrapper?
    Could the projector be open-sourced?

    Chris Miles

    23 Jul 04 at 7:57 pm

  51. eh bien pu

    eduardo

    4 Nov 04 at 2:29 pm

  52. I think flash is a good solution for GUI of Linux application, do you can release a devel package for developers ? Of course, the open source is also a good idea.

    Zhu Nancen

    17 Mar 05 at 10:45 am

  53. AMD64 says: hey, Macromedia! :)))

    amd64-xtra

    18 Jun 05 at 10:58 am

  54. And once again,

    Please provide a flash plugin for linux, amd64!

    Linux User

    2 Jan 06 at 9:17 am

  55. Please, flashplayer for AMD64 Linux, please…

    tasca

    30 Mar 06 at 10:50 am

  56. Anybodu know when flash 9 will be released?

    flash freelancer

    19 Mar 07 at 5:03 pm

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