Adobe  has released a Linux version of its latest Flash player, the software that enables Web browsers to view multimedia content, such as online videos, animated ads and other   interactive content all over the Internet.

Flash 9 was released for Windows and Macs six months ago. "Now the Linux community has full access to the high volume of Flash content and applications available on the Internet today, bringing Linux developers and users to the forefront of the Web 2.0 experience," said Emmy Huang, senior product manager at Adobe, in a statement.

"With the proliferation of video on the Web, Adobe Flash Player is quickly becoming the de facto industry standard for delivering engaging interactive content and applications,"

According to Adobe, the latest version of the player can run scripts up to 10 times more quickly than previous editions, and allows programmers to write portable applications exploiting more of the capabilities of Adobe's Flex 2 development platform.

It will also allow site developers using Linux to access more of the potential of Adobe's rich Internet application development environment.

Flash Player 9 for Linux is available as a free download from here.

The standalone and debug versions of Adobe Flash Player for developers are available here.


Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux will also be included in Linux operating systems distributed by Novell and Red Hat later this year.

written by Cristian L.