Shockwave On Linux

Is Shockwave ever going to be released on Linux. It doesn't
make sense to me as there are a load of people who use Linux now.
And there are loads of places that require the usage of Shockwave
especially for internet games.

I don't believe this makes the MS-Windows plugin usable in a native browser.  It requires running a separate browser, an act that is incoherent with an established session in the native browser.  For example, log in and navigate your favorite web site.  Encounter a Shockwave presentation.  Start a MS-Windows browser on Wine/CW.  Log in to the site, navigate to the presentation and view it.  Terminate the MS-Windows browser.  Return to the native browser and log back in to your favorite site, since the login to view the presentation clobbered your session.  Resume previous activities.

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    I want to dump Microsoft and go completely free with Ubuntu
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    PLEASE make a Linux version (32 bit and AMD64) of Shockwave
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    Please see this petition with 18,900 signatures so far.
    Hopefully this is enough now to justify it. There are other
    petitions on the Internet for it, as well. Just do a search
    shockwave linux petition and you will see.
    http://www.petitiononline.com/linuxswp/petition.html

    signed, but we waited around 1 year for a 64 bit flash
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  • Linux and shockwave

    hello,
    is adobe programing shockwave player to linux? flash player
    is working nicely but why there is no shockwave player?
    There is quite a lot linux users and lots of talking why
    adobe doesn't support us so I hope adobe can do something to this
    matter.
    Cincerely Tuomas

    I've searched and it seems to be reluctance on Adobe's part
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    When I get to a site that uses Shockwave and I can't use it,
    I write the site and tell then I am no longer using their site
    because of the incompatibilty of Shockwave and Linux.

  • A formal request.

    I would like to formally address an issue regarding Adobe's
    support of the Linux platform.
    As a professional, I have been using Linux for years. I
    started my technical consulting and support business running Linux
    primarily on my desktops and servers, using productivity
    applications such as OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, GNUCash, and
    others to get work done. I have gotten along great with it, and am
    proud to say that to this day, I am an avid Linux user and
    supporter. I haven't been able to find one reason to switch to
    another platform with my business yet.
    Recently I was contracted by an elementary school district in
    Northern California to convert all of their student computer labs
    from Windows 2000 workstations to Linux/LTSP thin clients. This is
    a common situation for educational institutions these days, as
    software licensing is becoming a rather large headache for those
    with limited IT budgets, not to mention the ease of administration
    with thin client networks compared to the traditional
    workstation/server network model.
    I am on school 2/7, setting up servers and reconfiguring
    aging clients to boot from the network...myself and the district's
    IT staff could not be happier with the way things are working out -
    with one exception.
    Unfortunately, the time I have primarily used setting up
    Linux LTSP computer labs have been dealing with getting Firefox
    Flash and Shockwave players working correctly. Here is our standard
    lab setup for the 7 schools to be converted:
    - HP Proliant ML370 G5 server (dual quad-core Intel Xeon
    64-bit processors, 8GB RAM)
    - Neoware e100 thin clients (32-bit, 128mb RAM)
    - Ubuntu Linux (64-bit server edition 7.04)
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    only architecture it supports is i386 (32-bit). This required a
    *completely* separate install of Firefox (the 32-bit version),
    alongside the standard 64-bit version installed with Ubuntu 64-bit.
    This took a lot of time (and money for the schools) to accomplish.
    I found, after much research and headache, a script which attempts
    to automate the technical nightmare that is installing 32-bit
    browsers/plugins in a 64-bit environment. It is here:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202537
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    migrated to Linux.
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    being a browser with a different CPU architecture, does not
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    issue, as the students' curriculum use Shockwave-enabled websites
    to learn. Basically, if we can't get Shockwave running on our Linux
    network, the students will be missing out on a major educational
    portal, which means the learning process that goes on in school is
    crippled. This would all be due to the lack of support Adobe is
    giving the Linux platform.
    On top of these issues, the fact that Adobe is only releasing
    its players in 32-bit architectures is extremely hard to believe.
    Even if Shockwave is ported to Linux, the possibilitiy of it (or
    Flash) being compiled for 64-bit architectures is but a far cry in
    the woods for a Starbucks double espresso. I simply do not see how
    Adobe is holding back on putting their resources to unifying their
    Internet-standard web products such as Flash and Shockwave. In my
    (very humble) opinion, Adobe is doing a great disservice to the
    Internet community as a whole, and is being very irresponsible as a
    major software company that so many people rely on for their
    Internet experience.
    Please give more of your resources to the development of
    unifying your web-based players such as Flash and Shockwave. It was
    said in an article here:
    http://www.linux.com/feature/32077
    , that Adobe would make a Shockwave player for Linux if they
    received a "few thousand requests".
    Well, take a look at this online petition to get Shockwave on
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    http://www.petitiononline.com/linuxswp/petition.html
    . If you click on "View Current Signatures", you will find as of
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    more' than a 'few thousand', don't you think?
    I eagerly await a response from any Adobe representative on
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    Thank you Adobe for your ignorance in questions of amd64
    flash. There is so much advertising is passing by and not stopping
    on my computer that i probably saved myself a fortune on traffic. I
    am so much thankful to you for not releasing BIG products like
    Photoshop to Linux platform which gave me a good opportunity to
    check out open source alternatives. I am not a designer, but rather
    all around computer enthusiast, so my Photoshop skills were still
    very well implemented in Gimp, even though i am not doing design
    for life. However I am not Adobe hater. I still use Adobe Acrobat,
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    price is irrelevant, since all of them are free.
    When god closes door he opens up a little window.

  • My question to the Adobe developers: Why you dont offer Shockwave Player for Linux based OS?

    You know well that people who using Linux can play their games bearing Shockwave with Firefox for Windows via Wine program. So, for Haven's sake why this torment?

    Um, if you're using Wine, what good would a Linux based Shockwave player be? Why don't you install the Windows version?
    Don't know anything about it, but I thought that was why people used Wine...

  • Shockwave doesn't work on firefox under linux mint 17, qiana

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  • Flash video with linux and Shockwave Flash 7.0 r63

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  • New player freezes with Linux+Firefox+Firebug.

    Any page (or tab) playing a flash video (youtube for example)
    freezes firefox when closed when firebug is loaded as a module.
    This only applies to flash video's being played and intermittently
    fails to crash.
    This message is cross posted to the bug report form as per
    the blog.
    === configuration ===
    Generated: Wed Mar 28 2007 16:20:39 GMT+1000 (EST)
    User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
    rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1)
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    - Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4:
    http://adblockplus.org/
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    http://joliclic.free.fr/mozilla/boox/
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    http://dev.hyperstruct.net/mozlab
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    - StumbleUpon 3.04:
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    http://tmp.garyr.net
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    #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
    No symbol table info available.
    #1 0xa7d8d398 in pthread_join () from
    /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
    No symbol table info available.
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    #4 0xa04f8be0 in NP_Shutdown () from
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    #5 0xa06ece72 in NP_Shutdown () from
    /home/me/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
    No symbol table info available.
    #6 0xa039cf0b in NP_Shutdown () from
    /home/me/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
    No symbol table info available.
    #7 0xa0321b40 in NP_Shutdown () from
    /home/me/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
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    #8 0xa031ce99 in NP_Shutdown () from
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    #12 0xaf85041c in ?? ()
    No symbol table info available.
    #13 0x0a3db9c8 in ?? ()
    No symbol table info available.
    #14 0x00000000 in ?? ()
    No symbol table info available.

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    "further information" message is with everything but Flash turned
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