[luau] Macromedia Flash plugin 6 for Linux released

Ben Beeson beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Dec 15 18:41:00 PST 2002


Warren,

	I downloaded and installed this about 3 minutes after you posted it.  So far 
it works great and I want to thank you for preparing such a clean install 
package for us to use.  It worked with out a hitch!

Thanks again,

Ben 

On Thursday 12 December 2002 08:25 pm, you wrote:
> http://macromedia.mplug.org
>
> Thursday (12/12/2002) Macromedia released Flash 6 for Linux x86.  I
> have obtained permission from Macromedia to redistribute their plugin
> in Linux friendly ways.  At this site there are RPM packages for
> Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE and Conectiva, with convenient apt-get and
> urpmi repositories for optional automated installation/updates.
> Gentoo and Debian users can use their normal apt/emerge to install
> the plugin.  Read the site for more details.
>
> This plugin seems to be stable in all instances, even with LTSP
> remote X which for nearly 2 years was broken with Linux Flash 5.
> Finally Linux has a stable native Flash plugin, something very
> necessary for mass market acceptance of Linux as a desktop.
>
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
>
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