Tarun Dua

It is seldom I write about proprietary software. I seem to be one of the first few users of Flash Player 9 plugin for firefox on Linux, the news hasn't even been slashdotted. ( I use Ubuntu Breezy Badger with KDE )
But Adobe has worked really hard to hack together the Flash Player 9 for Linux.
Its a massive 6.5 MB beast. I am sure when they move from beta to production version it would be lesser size with less debug info.
ldd shows up the long list of libraries linked to it.
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb77f3000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb77e0000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7720000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7713000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb76c5000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb765b000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb762c000)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7358000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb7321000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb72a0000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb727d000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb714f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb714b000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7147000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7140000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7127000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7113000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb70f4000)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb70dd000)
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7060000)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb705a000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb7025000)
libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb700a000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb7007000)
libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb6fbf000)
libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb6fbc000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb6fb4000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb6fb1000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb6fa8000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb6f9f000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb6f9b000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6f78000)
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb6f54000)
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf says more about the Linux version of Flash player 9 development pains.
Feels good to be a Linux Desktop user today.
Go get your copy at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/