Macromedia Feeling Lucky With Linux Player

KingFishKingFish
edited May 2004 in Science & Tech
Macromedia completed a cycle this week as it updated its Flash media player for Linux systems.
Already available for the Windows and Macintosh platforms, the new Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux is available for download and will be automatically bundled with the next batch of Linux systems distributed by Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and Turbolinux.
It's moves like this that will push Linux truly into the mainstream. -KingFish

Source: Internet News

Comments

  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited May 2004
    exactly
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    No. It's bringing real time D3D support to Linux that will push it into the main stream.

    Flash and Shockwave have been on Linux for years.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited May 2004
    The points wasn't that this one move will put Linux on everyone's desktop. It was that as more and more mainstream apps make their way to Linux that people will have less and less argument to stay away from Linux. One of the biggest and most compelling arguments that goes in favor of Windows is that it's nearly universal and almost 100% of mainstream apps and games will run on windows. As more apps trickle their way to Linux and it gains more support from the software community through moves as this it takes away one of windows biggest arguments. It will take many factors, not just realtime D3D support, to push Linux into the mainstream although that one factor may be one of the larger ones. Gamers have a profound effect on the path of technology and there's no denying that the path they take sends ripples everywhere else including the mainstream. I look for more software developers to bring more apps and titles to Linux to further this trend.

    KF
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited May 2004
    This is good news.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited May 2004
    1. Thrax is right.

    2. Until Linux becomes widely used on the desktop at work, it will never become the mainstream home user OS. People, in general, like to use at home what they have at work. This means excel, word, windows. They are forced to use it at work and after time develop a comfort level with it. Most people are not hard core users. They wont go download a linux distro to learn it and use it. They will however go buy a pc with windows (insert version here) that matches what they use at work. They will also go buy office because they use it at work. My old man is a prime example. Thought for the longest time computers, other than dumb terminals, were a waste of time and money. They were expensive toys to him. All he had ever used at work was a dumb terminal that was jacked into a oracle DB which contained all the info he needed to do his job. Then they installed a PC on his desk 2 years ago. Suddenly pc's were not toys but useful tools. Then he discovered excel and I got a call from him asking that I come install it on his home PC so that he could learn it and work from home. Now his excel skills rival my own but it was the workplace which motivated his home use. He used to never use the home pc they have, now he is on it atleast an hour a night. Then he went and bought a pda... anyway I digress. It was the office which forced the home user. Now there is talk of a new PC, thank god as that celery 300 with 128 meg running windows 98 on a 6gig HD has 1 foot in the grave. Of course he wants windows, and mentioned that maybe I could upgrade him to office 2003 (newer version of excel).

    Gobbles
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited May 2004
    Linux in it's current state will never penetrate the desktop user base. What share does it have at the moment? probably about %1 microsoft has about %95 and im sure mac has a bigger share.

    They need to make linux idiot proof plain and simple and they also need people a compelling reason to switch. Not this "bring down microsoft" malarky the average home user dosen't care they will use what they learnt in their education system and they will also use what their work uses.

    Linux unless uniting and starting to conform to the microsofts way of doing things sadly wont hit mainstream for a long time.
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