Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux now available

Macromedia has announced the immediate availability of Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux.
This new version of Macromedia Flash Player, the leading rich Internet client, offers improved performance and security and powerful new development capabilities. Macromedia Flash Player is bundled with Linux operating systems distributed by Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and Turbolinux.
"Macromedia is committed to the Linux platform and wants to make sure Linux users can experience the proven effectiveness of Flash technology on their platform of choice," said Jeff Whatcott, Vice President of product management, Macromedia. "Developers can now take advantage of the breakthrough performance and advanced capabilities of Flash Player 7, enabling them to deliver a consistent cross-platform experience."
The world's most ubiquitous rich client, Macromedia Flash Player is installed across more than 98% of Internet-connected desktops and a growing number of mobile devices. Flash Player is the high performance runtime for effective rich Internet applications created with the recently released Macromedia Flex presentation server and expressive interactive content created with the Macromedia Flash authoring tool. Developers worldwide rely on the integrated graphics, video, audio, and data capabilities of Flash Player to deliver the most engaging and effective experiences on the web. Engineers from Sun Microsystems and Macromedia worked together to port the Flash Player code to the Linux platform.
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