Hey, some progress on this front. Yes, it looks like Adobe’s Flash Player 9 won’t arrive for Linux until sometime in 2007. However, we’d still love to see you, your family and your friends here using and enjoying Jumpcut. So here’s a solution a Linux Desktop user here at Jumpcut found over on Howtoforge. While that article’s title is a bit misleading (you will be running the Windows binaries for Firefox and the Flash Player 9 under WINE, not natively), at least you can run Flash 8 & 9 apps (not just Jumpcut’s) until Adobe releases the Real Thing(tm). Note that we really cannot actively support this use of Linux, WINE and Flash, but felt you should know about it.

From what information we’ve gathered (and oh-so-limited testing), here’s some random notes for you.

• Requires a 32-bit OS (64-Bit OS unsupported)
• We’ve “tested”: WINE: 0.9.20 (other versions may or may not work)
• OSes: So far, Gentoo 2006.1 and Ubuntu’s Dapper Drake have been reported as working.

Thanks to “mariuz” on HowtoForge for figuring this solution out.