Read the FAQ for Flash Player 9 for Linux and here is the Release Note.

Known issues for Linux

• Full-screen mode is not available for the Linux player yet. SSL support is not available in the Linux Standalone Player. These features will be implemented for the final release.
• Artifacts may appear when video initially plays.
• System fonts may appear differently between Linux distributions. Formatting issues may result.
• AMF3 connections do not work over RTMP. (186958)
• Right clicking outside of Flash Player while the context menu is displayed doesn’t make the context menu disappear. Workaround: Left-click to turn off the context menu. (187957)
• IME is not available (no international text input). (184489)
• Express Install is an unsupported feature due to the variety of Linux platforms, each handling the Adobe Flash Player plug-in installation in different ways.
• Acrobat Connect Add-In installation is not working at this time. (188318)
• The Standalone Player is available in English only. (184237)

Fixed issues (Win/Mac)

• When opening 2 window instances of IE 7 with 2 tabs each, crash will occur with binary socket connection. (186530)
• Clicking play/pause button in a Google video opens another IE window and new window crashes. (184274)
• Player crashes when parent MovieClip destroyed using a onSetFocus event handler. (187080)
• Safari dropping frames and playing video poorly in full-screen mode (PPC & Mactel). (187776)
• Dynamic TextField prints as a solid box when using embedded fonts and set for anti-alias for readability. (187087)
• Setting selectable=false on a TextField doesn’t prevent keyboard selection. (186835)
• RegExp .index property isn’t double byte aware. (186337)
• Artifacts when initially playing + video stream freeze when selecting second video clip. (186435)
• Alpha channel rendering issue when rendering video containing an alpha channel, followed by another asset on the same stream without an alpha channel. (183860)

Figures in brackets denotes bug number in the Adobe BugBase.

References

• Beta Refresh on Adobe Labs: Flash Player 9 for Linux beta now available
• Beta is Live
• Flash Player 9 for Linux Beta 1

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Any chance of an alpha look at the in-development, forthcoming, early 2007 release of Flash 9 for Linux turned to a very extinct omega, according to Adobe’s Mike Melanson. The lead engineer for the Linux Flash Player posted at the Penguin.SWF blog how the first look at Flash 9 will be through a beta version of it:

Dropping an alpha release on the Linux community would likely yield tons of bug reports from those users. Adobe knows about a lot of those bugs, and Melanson said, “Processing such redundant reports would not necessarily be the most industrious use of our time.”

Adobe has at times been accused of being less than sensitive to the requests of Linux users, and Melanson’s post drew forth responses from some of the critics. One commenter responded to the bug-reporting concerns by wondering why software bugs are such a concern for Adobe now, with Flash Player 7 having been a less-than-perfect product itself:

Melanson has been keeping up with postings to the Penguin.SWF blog, and tracking progress he has seen with Flash Player 9. It is too early to judge the kind of job Melanson and the Adobe team will do with the project, even if patience is wearing thin among the product’s Linux userbase.

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Adobe developer Mike Melanson has been tracking the development progress of Flash Player 9 for Linux users. A recent post on his Penguin.SWF blog listed the APIs being used in this version of the software.

“I debated whether it was appropriate to publish this information,” Melanson wrote. “Then I remembered that anyone who knows what they’re doing should be able to figure this stuff out by themselves anyway once the final Player is released.”

The API list from Melanson’s post:

Melanson opened the post up for comments from people who have been following the development of the Flash Player for Linux. They had several observations and suggestions about where the development team could go with their API choices.

GTK picked up a few comments, with one person noting that Adobe already owns Qt licenses. Others noted how Firefox and GTK play nicely together, a favorable point for a platform that has plenty of Firefox users among its devotees.

Quite a few also advocated the GStreamer framework instead of ALSA for the audio in Flash Player 9. And several pointed out how Video4Linux version 2 should be a better choice than version 1.

Melanson clarified the version 1 choice in a later post. He noted that while numerous camera drivers for version 1 exist, few do so for version 2. Also, with version 1 code already in Flash, it is much easier for Adobe to make it work with Flash Player 9.

As for the GStreamer fans, Melanson is dashing their hopes. “As for delegating camera input duties to GStreamer as so many have clamored for… no, just… no,” he wrote.

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But as Jens C. Brynildsen of Flashmagazine points out, the tool is still “hard to use for the uninitiated.” He also remarks on the “limitations on scale and scope” that make Flash somewhat ill-suited for larger, professional Web applications. Brynildsen comments on the competition it faces from AJAX and the Windows Vista Rich Internet Applications (RIA), as well.

Flash is not a lost cause, though, or even a losing one. There are several groups who intend to “combine Flash and AJAX to take web applications one step further.” Adobe’s Apollo platform has established a (proverbial) defense against Microsoft developments, and Brynildsen believes that “with Flex 2, they now have the tool to win developers over to their side.”

As one might expect, Adobe’s executives have a good deal of confidence in their products. “Now Flash app development is even more compelling and a lot easier,” said Bill McCoy, General Manager of the ePublishing Business at Adobe, to BetaNews.

On the more technical side of things, McCoy said, “Flash Player 9′s new ActionScript 3, compatible with proposed next-level of ECMAScript, is a powerful language that supports direct XML processing (ECMAScript for XML, aka E4X), strong types, inheritance and mix-in interfaces, exceptions, and other robust software-engineering capabilities.”

For Flash and Flex fans, these new products represent positive developments. Whether they can carry Adobe into the future remains to be seen.

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