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Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux

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Re: Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux

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Post by maximilian »

thristian wrote: post #18

Since I'm running Ubuntu, I decided to try the 'download for Ubuntu' option on the download form. It went down like this: - Firefox asked me whether I wanted to launch the 'apturl' tool. I accepted its suggestion. - I got a dialog saying "This will enable the Canonical Partners repository". I'm pretty sure I already had it enabled, but sure, what the hell. - I got the usual 'downloading updated package lists' dialog.…

I also went through this, gave up, then downloaded the tarball, and copied the plugin to its spot in /var/lib/.

I did backup the old plugin though, just in case.

I also tried just updating Chrome, which is supposed to have the newer flash version, but it didn't have it. Not sure why..

Re: Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux

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Post by _2xb0 »

thristian wrote: post #18

Since I'm running Ubuntu, I decided to try the 'download for Ubuntu' option on the download form. It went down like this: - Firefox asked me whether I wanted to launch the 'apturl' tool. I accepted its suggestion. - I got a dialog saying "This will enable the Canonical Partners repository". I'm pretty sure I already had it enabled, but sure, what the hell. - I got the usual 'downloading updated package lists' dialog.…

At least in debian:

    sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
works flawlessly.

Re: Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux

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Post by JshWright »

melling wrote: post #19
LBarret wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. flash 11 won't have GPU acceleration on linux. Adobe said there were too many driver issues.

Flash is a product by Adobe. It's not an open standard. Adobe is only one company with limited resources. It's time to uninstall it and move on.

Move on to what?

Re: Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux

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Post by lallysingh »

thristian wrote: post #18

Since I'm running Ubuntu, I decided to try the 'download for Ubuntu' option on the download form. It went down like this: - Firefox asked me whether I wanted to launch the 'apturl' tool. I accepted its suggestion. - I got a dialog saying "This will enable the Canonical Partners repository". I'm pretty sure I already had it enabled, but sure, what the hell. - I got the usual 'downloading updated package lists' dialog.…

It would be funny --- if it wasn't so tragic --- how much easier to use and manage free software is. Especially considering it's almost all just './configure ; make && make install' at the base level.

I friggin' love pacman.

Re: Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux

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Post by melling »

JshWright wrote: post #23
melling wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flash is a product by Adobe. It's not an open standard. Adobe is only one company with limited resources. It's time to uninstall it and move on.

Move on to what?

To open standards? I uninstalled Flash a couple of weeks ago. That's the first step. Every few days I hit some video that I wish I could watch. Sometimes I reach for my iPad to watch it. You would think since I can watch it on my iPad, the site could detect that I don't have Flash and use another codec.

Re: Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux

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Post by morsch »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #15
ilcavero wrote: post #8

does this mean that a video doesn't trigger 100% CPU usage anymore? can't wait to try it

Depends on the video, the CPU, the GPU, and how the video is displayed in Flash, but yes, it should work better, more often (though I'm not sure the 64-bitness is that relevant compared with the other stuff).

It is. The nspluginwrapper used to run the 32-bit Flash in a 64-bit Firefox (dunno if it also applies to other browsers) really slowed things down. I got much better performance running the 64-bit plugin, all other things -- including the Flash version number -- being equal.

Re: Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux

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Post by mike_heffner »

This worked for Fedora 14:

    # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-x86_64.repo

    [adobe-linux-x86_64]
    name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
    baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

    # yum install flash-plugin
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