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title: Hallelujah, Flash 9 is (Finally) Here
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 [![](http://static.flickr.com/32/273896040_cace8c853a_m.jpg)

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 [Flash 9 for Linux Beta Out](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sog/273896040/)
 
 Originally uploaded by [sogrady](http://www.flickr.com/people/sog/).



Very happy to see over at Penguin.swf that the folks from Adobe have [released](http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html) a beta of their Flash client for Linux. Wait, the Boston Globe Red Sox online videos now work? Make that _exceedingly_ happy.

ESPN’s InMotion doesn’t appear to function properly – no big loss there – but at least I’m not getting that immensely frustrating “Please upgrade your client to Flash 8” message any longer. As ESPN demonstrates, there appear to be a handful of sites that present minor compatibility issues, but overall the player seems to be functioning more or less as expected for members of the [Gentoo](http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-508668-highlight-flash9.html) and [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=279991&highlight=Flash+9+beta) communities. So far the most popular destination for newly equipped Linux Flash users seems to be SciFi.com’s Battlestar Gallactica site. No surprise there.

One quick note to Ubuntu users: following the installation instructions included with the player won’t work, you need instead to copy the libflashplayer.so file over to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins, restart Firefox and you should be all set. You can also drop it into the Mozilla directory and link to it from that directory as specified [here](http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280252&highlight=Flash+9+beta).

Now if only I’d had this while the Sox were still playing…