Well, Apple's also been on a spending spree of various k00l software houses. I guess Macromedia isn't k00l.
They have Flash 6 for Linux? I thought they just did an old Flash for Linux and then gave up on it.
flash is for psychos anyway
http://home.pacific.net.au/~ahw/fleabag.html
I downloaded Flash 6 for Linux a couple days ago, and cos is right - the "freeze or possibly crash your browser whenever music and Flash play at the same time" thing is gone. Woopee!
Cool. Now if you could selectively enable it for good sites whilst disabling it for everything else (i.e., those "Shoshkele" ads which go opaque over the page you're reading and force you to watch a stupid animation on why a certain car/credit card/lifestyle product is cool), I'd download it. As it is, I can live without Flash and run VMWare/IE if I need it.
they fixed the audio guff in the Flash 6 beta for Linux - if it can't open the audio device, it just keeps going without sound.
(or so it says. i haven't verified this. the debian package has some thing to run mozilla/galeon through artswrapper, so i've never had any problems anyway)