Adobe: No Linux Flash Player Till 2007

Well what about a darned Shockwave player for cripes sakes! Seriously, I get that we have to wait for a Flash player that perhaps will sync better with the most common Linux sound systems, but what about Shockwave?

Impatient Linux users will have to wait till the end of the year for even a preview release of Adobe’s Flash Player 9.
The company’s lead Flash for Linux engineer, Mike Melanson , reported this week in his blog that Adobe won’t release any alpha versions of its Flash port, holding out instead for a full-featured beta scheduled for release sometime late this year.
Adobe recently released a major Flash overhaul, version 9, for Windows and Macintosh clients. For Linux users, the release lengthened the Flash gap between them and other users: Adobe skipped Flash Player 8 for Linux and hasn’t released a Linux update since mid-2004. Because Flash is not fully backward-compatible, Web content developed for the newer Flash players often won’t run in version 7, the most current Linux version. Adobe’s market research shows that 86 percent of U.S. computer users are able to view Flash 8 content…. Source: CRN