[tjogin]

I don't believe that for a second. It sure doesn't explain why Flash isn't performant on Linux, or are you going to blame that on Linus Torvalds?

[cloudwalking]

With actual GPU-accelerated H.264 decoding I’m guessing those CPU utilization numbers could drop to a remotely reasonable value. But it’s up to Apple to expose the appropriate hooks to allow Adobe to (eventually) enable that functionality.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3678&p=5

See this Adobe PDF for an explanation about Linux: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenote...

[cloudwalking]

I don't think Adobe cares much about people on Linux. There isn't much market there.

[cakesy]

Linus won't let Adobe make a decent Flash plugin for Linux. Linus restricts APIs that the plugin needs to run well--things like access to hardware video acceleration.