JD on EP

In case Macromedia/Adobe are not listening to the people out there, two of my clients have recently decided against using Flash on their redesigned web sites specifically because the Flash Player is not available for 64-bit architectures running Linux. About 12% and 8% of each client's traffic is coming from Linux users and they were not willing to risk alienating that much of their visitors. The open source community would have already had a 64-bit Linux Flash Player out there if its code were freely available. 64-bit architectures have been around for over three years now.

[jd sez: Hold it... there have been zero comments here from anyone actually testing that wrapper, but there's some evangelism above. Why the discrepancy...?]

I just tried it, and it does work to show flash, but firefox is not very happy about it. It hangs now and then. I might have to uninstall it. Too bad.

This is with:

Ubuntu6.06 - 64 bit on a dual core Intel.
firefox 1.5.0.5
Flash 7 from Adobe

and following along with this handy guide:
http://marius.scurtescu.com/?p=139

Well I got it working on Suse 10.1 with Firefox. It is laggy and it to seems to cause a significate increase in system resource usage but it is functional. I expected what I saw from the wrapper. I would not have reloaded my laptop just so I could view flash sites. I hate flash websites anyway :P on adobe

[jd sez: Deprecating one's options still mystifies me. But thanks for the word that that freely-donated wrapper work didn't help you on your current configuration.]

Alright, finally I have flash working on my linux amd64 box :D. I waited a while for that one (my last 3 boxes were equiped with 64bit CPU). I hope pandora.com will work.

Oh and Jake, I agree completely. I personally think that Flash is on it's way out of the door. Web 2.0 now offers most of the features that Flash was created for in the first place, plus it's OSS (by web 2.0, I mean AJAX (prototype.js) and scriptaculous)

http://script.aculo.us/

By closing the source, you tend to also close the life span of your product.

These also crash, but at least you're not forbidden from fixing or trying to improve them:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/

I have not got Flash to run because nspluginwrapper tell me that the flash .so file is not a valid npapi file. Strange stuff this linux there is always a gotyer in there somewhere. Missing key, missing codec connection not found what a job sorting through it. Other that that the standard stuff from ubuntu works well I'm impressed enough to keep trying. regards Ian.

actuly 64bit computing has been around since the 60s but have only now migrated to the desktop.

Mostly works for me on Etch. Used the package source
deb http://www.dipconsultants.com/debian etch main
It does crash more than 32-bit flash, and sometimes it just disappears (especially when viewing youtube videos) leaving an empty white region in the webpage it's embedded in.

A 64-bit version would be good. Or even better, an open standard for Flash. It'll have to come to that eventually. Otherwise Flash will fade away and be superseded by other technologies which are fully open.