Flash Player 9 for Linux Looks Great

Published: Jan 17, 2007
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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Adobe Systems on Jan. 17 finally released the long-awaited Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux. Although a binary-only release, its already proven quite popular within its first 24 hours of release.

This version of Flash Player was meant to be feature-comparable to Adobes latest Windows and Mac OS versions, which were released in late June of 2006.

All Flash Player 9 family versions render content far faster than earlier editions. On Linux, it also does a much better job at syncing video and audio.

/zimages/4/28571.gifClick hereto read about a promising test drive of the Flash Player 9 for Linux beta.

Adobe also claims that Flash Player 9 for Linux offers more efficient memory utilization, and that it adds advanced features for graphics, video and text, as well as support for the AVM2 (ActionScript Virtual Machine), which enables up to 10 times faster scripting performance.

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Ten times faster? I decided to see just how fast it was compared to Adobe Flash Player 7.0.69, the previous Linux version.

To do this, I set up both versions on an Insignia 300a, an older Best Buys house brand desktop PC. This PC has a 2.8GHz Pentium IV, 1GB of RAM, and an Ultra ATA/100, 7200 RPM, 60GB hard drive. It was running SLED 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10).

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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