Adobe: Flash will terminate local support for Linux systems

According to foreign media reports, Adobe recently announced that the company has plans for Flash and AIR in the future, but Linux users are not within their consideration.

Adobe said that the company will no longer release direct Flash installations for Linux desktop users. If Linux users want to use Flash, the only way is to use Google's Chrome browser.

It is reported that Adobe will release Flash Player 11.2 in the first quarter of 2012, which will be the last version of Flash that provides native support for Linux.

The new features that will be included in Flash Player 11.2 are as follows:

• support for mouse locks;

• right click and middle mouse click support;

• disable context menus;

• support more hardware-accelerated video cards to increase the availability of hardware-accelerated content;

• new Throttle event API;

• Multi-threaded video decoding pipeline to improve overall video performance on all desktop platforms.

After Flash Player 11.2, Adobe will not provide Flash support directly for the Linux operating system. If Linux users want to use the Flash player, then Flash can be run as a plugin in the sandbox via the Pepper API in Chrome.

It is reported that Google will release a Chrome browser with built-in Pepper Player-based Flash Player for all platforms later this year, including the Linux platform.