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Posted Oct 20, 2006 19:50 UTC (Fri) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266)
Parent article: Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux is available (ZDNet)

Still no word about a 64-bit linux version though... :(


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Posted Oct 20, 2006 20:52 UTC (Fri) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link]

Quoth http://www.kaourantin.net/2006/10/flash-player-9-for-linux-beta-1.html

What about 64bit? There is no Windows 64bit or OS X 64bit version either right now. As I said before it is not a question of 'recompiling' the source code, there is lots of generic non platform specific work which needs to be finished first. We will ship a 64bit version for Windows, OS X Leopard and GNU/Linux. It will happen. When? ... When it is ready.

So, that means not any time soon... From the flash devs' blogs, I get the impression that substantial parts of flash seem to be written in assembly, so I can understand why porting to 64bit would be non-trivial.

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Posted Oct 22, 2006 19:07 UTC (Sun) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

They're not alone. Real is also having the same problem in making their code 64-bit-clean.

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