After announcing back in September 2016 the Beta preview of its latest Flash Player technologies for Linux platforms, synced with the Windows and Mac builds, it looks like Adobe finally released Flash Player 24 for Linux.

Adobe updated Flash Player Linux for Chromium (PPAPI) and Flash Player Linux for Firefox (NPAPI) to version 24.0.0.186, the same one that's also used on Microsoft Windows and Apple's macOS operating systems, along with Flash Player Linux for Google Chrome and Flash Player for Google's Linux-based ChromeOS.

So, yes, we can now say that Adobe Flash Player is again at its latest version on GNU/Linux distributions, and it's coming soon to a distro near you (at the moment of writing this article, it's already in the Arch Linux stable repositories). But should you install it considering it has always been a security risk?

Well, that depends on your needs for viewing or working with Flash content on your Linux-based operating system. Most of today's popular web browsers are either integrating their own Flash Player implementation by default or default to HTML5 for most of the multimedia content displayed on the Internet.

Google Chrome used to ship with its own Flash Player implementation, which it finally killed starting with version 55. However, we won't stop you from installing Adobe's Flash Player technologies on your GNU/Linux distro, so go ahead and download the 64-bit or 32-bit binaries right now from our website.