Until we can win-over the Slashdot types, Flash will always be greeted with an eyeroll. Making Flash run without wine on Linux is the first step in that battle.
On 5/16/06,
Carlos Rovira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"even though there may not be much of a direct financial return for that Linux work..."John,
As I live the day-by-day in the Big Enterprise I must point the relevance of Linux systems in a lot of clients and mainly in goberment institutions. Belive me that targeting Linux OS is a key factor to get Flash Platform and Flex get mass adoption and get the respect we all want for this technology.
I'm talking with many people that is interested in what Flex can offer but they work in linux stations all day. Open Source software propagates each day and many consultancies are using the open source as one of its strategies to gain accounts and projects. We should expect linux to become as important as windows in a near future, so belive me that there will be direct financial return from the linux work, and many people will jump to this platform as they'll be aware that linux is supported the same as the other platforms.
Best,
C.2006/5/16, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:Till Schneidereit wrote:
> can you point me to any source for your claims about Flash Player availability on Linux? I've been looking for any information on that since Tinic[1,2] and Emmy[2] posted about this topic. In these posts, Emmy came closest to giving any information about the release date when she stated "Based on the short time frame between announcing Flash Player 8 and Flash Player 8.5, we decided to work on developing a Linux version for Flash Player 8.5, which will ship after the Windows and Mac versions."
The current guidance I've seen is that a Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux
is expected after the Mac/Win releases, but I haven't seen any real time
estimate offered, and I'm also not sure yet of which "Linux" are in the
target mix. (These configurations and media services vary much more than
Mac and Win base capabilities do.)
I agree with Till that it's important that "Adobe is putting real
resources into porting the player and doing it right"... from what I
see, it's a vital part of the business to have universal, predictable
viewing of both SWF and PDF, even though there may not be much of a
direct financial return for that Linux work... the universality in
itself is a key reward.
jd
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