Adobe releases Linux version of Flash Player 9
Six months after delivering Flash Player 9 for Windows and Mac OS X, Adobe Systems has finally got around to releasing a version of the new generation multimedia client for the open source Linux platform. Adobe claims to have more than 700 million Flash users on Internet-connected PCs and mobile devices throughout the world. Flash Player 9 for Linux runs scripts up to 10 times as fast as the previous version and provides advanced features for graphics, video and text.
Not having access to the latest version of Flash has been a hindrance for both Linux-based Web surfers, who have been preventing from accessing many of the latest interactive websites, as well as Web developers for the Linux platform, who wish to provide Web 2.0 types of applications.
With the provision of Flash 9 for Linux, developers will be deploy rich Internet applications using the free Adobe Flex 2 Software Developers Kit, Adobe Flash Player 9 and the free Flex Data Services 2 Express.