Adobe releases Flash 10 beta for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
Adobe released today beta packages for the upcoming version of its Flash player. The Flash 10 packages are available for download at Adobe Labs. Users have reported a serious speed increase and far less CPU usage, as much a 20% less. Check out the Flash 10 release notes for more information.
There is an RPM and a tar.gz for we Linux folks. Red Hat and Fedora users are fine with the RPM, but Ubuntu users will have a little more to do. Download the Flash 10 tar.gz, then continue.
Iinstalling it is easy. If you’re running 32-bit Ubuntu, simply make sure that flashplugin-nonfree is installed and copy the libflashplayer.so file in the tar.gz to .mozilla/plugins or to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree. If you’re using 64-bit Ubuntu like I am, then you’ll have to do the latter and run nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so to relink everything.
This release is on the heels of the recent announcement of the Open Screen Project, a project aims to put Flash on basically everything by opening up many of the workings of the proprietary format. To begin, Adobe will “[lift] restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications, publish the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player, publish the Adobe Flash Cast protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services, and [lift] licensing fees, making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free.”
mrgnash:
Thanks. This tutorial worked perfectly for me
18 May 2008, 6:41 am