taupter.blogspot.com — Some days ago Mr. Mike Melanson of Adobe Flash's Linux port fame posted in Penguin.SWF blog about the news of H.264 coded support in Flash. Nice, a new codec. But there's a question that doesn't want to be silenced: What about a nice, clear and objective answer about the availability of a 64bit version of the Flash plugin?
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gmorganAug 27, 2007
Not possible in practice. Eventually we must upgrade to 64 bit because of the address space constraints. The real question is who will be prepared and who won't. Apple are ahead of the game, Linux has taken some reasonable steps and MS has barely recognised there is an issue yet.
gmorganAug 27, 2007
Just ship two discs with one activation code.
jonforthewinAug 27, 2007
If it were an anything version of windows it'd suck. =/
jorophoseAug 28, 2007
It's a bit obvious why they do that. Unlike Adobe, moving to 64-bit will cause doom & demise to Windows. [Maybe not MS directly; IBM is still around you know] For example, so many OSs simply died out or never hit more than 2% market share at 32-bit because they weren't ready; right now history is repeating itself. Windows XP64 isn't really all that, and Vista is a joke. In the eyes of businesses, if they think 64-bit, why not take the jump and go for the two superior 64-bit techs. (AMD64 & Linux) They're going to move to 64-bit anyways, all MS can do is pray they can slow them down.Oh, and John ftw. Microsoft has never been a smart planner.
jorophoseAug 28, 2007
He's up in the top-right corner ready to scarf down his prey.
jorophoseAug 28, 2007
The protocol/specification or whatever you call it [I think the official name is ActionScript] should be open, maybe under MPL. [They did that for Flex!] The plugin/player being Free as well would be sweet but might not happen. The actual program can stay closed as far as I'm concerned, I just want a way to make an alternative...
jasornJan 6, 2008
Yeah, using the 32bit wouldn't be so bad if it didn't crash all the time.
dgtlmoonApr 18, 2008
You can cheat with nspluginwrapper to get it working in 64 bit linux <a class="user" href="http://dgtlmoon.com/i_got_flash_working_on_64bit_amd_under_debianlinux">http://dgtlmoon.com/i_got_flash_working_on_64bit_a ...</a>
rslaranjoMay 7, 2010
here's how I did it: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/Installing_64_bit_Flash_Plugin_in_Ubuntu_10_04" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/linux_unix/Installing_64_bit_Flash ...</a>