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Re: [News] Free Flash Player for Linux

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[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> (A reverse-engineering project)
>>
>> Gnash, the free Flash player, makes progress
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The Gnash project has been developing a free software Flash player
>> | since December. Filling one of the last major gaps on the
>> | GNU/Linux desktop, it is one of the Free Software Foundation's
>> | high-priority projects.
>> `----
>>
>> http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/06/20/1855200.shtml?tid=130
>>
>> Flash 9 will be coming to Linux as well.
> 
> In the meantime, Gnash is currently the *only* way those running *any*
> 64bit OS can view flash files on a legacy free (64bit only) system,
> and AFAIK Gnash is currently Linux only.

If you check the article, I think you'll find it's more than just Linux,
I think at least BSD are supported as well.

> 
> Although I'm also sorry to note, Dries Verachtert has yet to complete
> a successful build of Gnash on his repo for FC5.
> 


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