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Flash Player 9 for Linux beta is available

This beta includes 2 gzip'd tarball packages:

• one is for the Mozilla plugin and
  
• the other is for a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player.
  

The standalone Player (gflashplayer) can be run in place (after you set its executable permission). The plugin is dropped into your local plugin directory (for a local user) or the system-wide plugin directory.

This screenshot by Adobe's James Ward is from a pre-alpha version of Flash Player 9 running a JBoss Collaboration client on Linux.

Let me quote him on this:

Flex 2 and Flash Player 9 are changing how the world builds and experiences web applications. Now we have a ubiquitous and consistent virtual machine to run real applications in. And we have an amazing programming model and SDK to build those applications with. Best of all, it's all free (as in beer)! I have been working with JBoss on a Flex based collaboration client and the results have been stunning. It's beautiful, extremely fast, and as soon as Flash Player 9 on Linux debuts it will work the same on any OS or browser, without any "if IE" workarounds! When Apollo is available this will get even more interesting since we can take the same collaboration client application and run it offline, without the browser!

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