Lightspark 0.6 Released, an Adobe Flash Alternative

The new release of Lightspark, version 0.6.0.1, features lots of improvements, new features, and bug fixes, among which we can mention:

· Support for LLVM 3.1; · Better support for fonts; · Support for AIR desktop apps; · Better matrix handling; · Better serialization robustness; · Support for www.bbc.co.uk video player; · RTMP support enabled by default (requires librtmp); · IEvent­Dis­patcher imple­men­ta­tion pat­tern support was fixed; · Private namespaces are now properly supported; · Implemented name­space pool­ing and string, in order to reduce memory consumption; · A PulseAu­dio volume issue was fixed.

To install Lightspark on your Ubuntu distribution, open a terminal and paste the following commands, one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sparkers/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lightspark

Fedora users can install Lightspark by pasting the following commands in a terminal:

- Standalone player :

su -c ‘yum install lightspark –enablerepo=rpmfusion-free-updates-testing’

- Mozilla plugin :

 su -c 'yum install lightspark-mozilla-plugin --enablerepo=rpmfusion-free-updates-testing' Download Lightspark 0.6.0.1 right now from Softpedia.

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