Only Flash 7 is currently available for Linux. The head of Flash development at Macromedia has publically stated that there will be no Flash 8 for Linux. Instead, they will wait for Flash 8.5 to be released for Windows/Mac and then port that to Linux. There is no indication on when Flash 8.5 will be out, but it is sooner rather than later, as the whole excuse is that there is such a short timespan between 8.0 and 8.5 that it wasn't worth the effort to port 8.0 when they could leap straight to 8.5. I don't buy it personally, especially as the Mac version is essentially a UNIX version, but there you go, that's closed source for ya.

John.