Linux an equal Flash player
Nothing can stop progress. Linux is appreciated as a high-class desktop operating system. Adobe has recently launched version 10 of Adobe Flash Player, and now this popular player became available in a majority of application-oriented packaging formats for Linux.
In former times, desktop Linux was treated as a second-rate citizen, where Flash technologies were adapted. As lately as 2007, it took 6 months for Linux users to wait for Flash 9 release.
Now, while Microsoft decided to deprive Linux users of Silverlight technology, its alternative to Flash, Adobe has built Linux an equal SWF-player. It proudly declares that "about 80 % of online videos worldwide are browsed applying Adobe Flash technology." Adobe further announces that Flash 9 reached a 90 percent spread to Web browsers in fewer than 9 months.
The new Adobe Flash Player version interrelates with Adobe's release of Create Suite 4 (CS4), its content creation tools for web masters and designers. New advantages and capabilities available in CS4 are supported by the new Flash Player.
Advertised Flash 10 improvements, as described by Adobe, contain:
New creative features in the design of application, and wysiwyg performance improvements
Reliable support for graphic effects and filters, native 3D animation and transformation, Graphic Processing unit hardware acceleration and enhanced audio processing
A variety of advanced text layout options
Blend modes, custom filters, and supported possibility to update the effect on complicated media content at runtime
Besides, Adobe Company confirmed again its commitment to the Open Screen Project (OSP). Adobe management first made public its OSP plans in May, promising it would work with the group of free file formats and APIs. The aim of this collaboration is to develop Flash as popular on devices as on desktops.
At the same time it’s important to realize that Adobe get too much influence in the niche of content creation tools. It’s possible that a certain percent of developers will search for other alternative technologies that uses only freely licensed codecs and software. Linux availability or no, Flash doesn’t feel like to be engaged in the open source and free software communities.
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