Why no Flash for PPC?

[travnewmatic]

My friend brought up a good point. If Adobe still makes flash for OS X that can run on PPC, then why why isn't there one for Linux on PPC.

From what I've seen, this is a pretty big problem (among many) that people switching from OS X to Ubuntu are having.

Gnash just isn't cutting it.

[ad_267]

That's something you'd have to ask Adobe.

[ladr0n]

Adobe is trying to collect as long a list as possible of reasons why it is not responsible enough to be trusted with the development of ubiquitous technologies such as flash.

[travnewmatic]

I suppose an even broader question is, how close is OS X to Linux/BSD and if they are close, what's keeping people from porting stuff from OS X to Linux/BSD. Are they that far removed from each other? I thought that was one of the things Apple touted about OS X.

[cyberdork33]

I suppose an even broader question is, how close is OS X to Linux/BSD and if they are close, what's keeping people from porting stuff from OS X to Linux/BSD. Are they that far removed from each other? I thought that was one of the things Apple touted about OS X.
Most applications rely on the proprietary libraries and windowing environment of OS X that is not available to those on GNU/Linux. Much GNU/Linux software, on the other hand, can be ported to OS X quite easily because it includes, X11, and most of the basic *nix utilities under the hood.