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So you’re running a flavour of linux for the AMD 64bit platform - such as Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop ((.. which coincidentally has just won the ‘Best Linux Desktop’ category in Infoworld Technology of the Year Awards )) and you’re about to go visit a frequently used flash powered website, so you launch firefox and.. oh noes, no flash.

So of course one thinks “no worries, I’ll just install it..” and that would be that, right?

Wrong!

Up until recently if one used a 64 bit linux operating system, one was, quite literally, shit out of luck. You see Macromedia Adobe doesn’t ((.. or certainly didn’t up until recently.)) believe 64bit Linux exists, oh no, it’s some nasty rumour spread by Microsoft employee’s as some kind of sick in-joke.

But.. all is not lost - indeed this slipped under the radar and I only happened across it entirely by mistake. Damn fine mistake, indeed the best one I’ve made today.

Whilst
iTunes is still my primary media player of choice, I have been looking for a slightly more ‘open’ player that has broad audio format support, will still interface with my (aging) iPod, can import from iTunes and will generally do everything iTunes can.
So, what happens when you roll a media player, into the Mozilla […]