Adobe's Flash sucks...

...so I wrote my own.

Executable size:

Adobe: 2.33 MB
Mine: 20 KB

Sample output:

Adobe: http://i.imgur.com/EzR54ML.png
Mine: http://i.imgur.com/Q2uOhBc.png

It's not all done yet, but I don't expect it to grow much bigger. I wasn't even trying to optimise it although it turned out much smaller than I expected.

Gnash+Lightspark actually works pretty well. It isn't useful if you're using the kind of swf's that take advantage of some specially functionality of Flash, but, much like with Wine and video games, Gnash+Lightspark pretty much has all the tools necessary to deal with animations and simple games. Plus, there's a standalone client. Granted, there's Projector, but the binary Adobe distributes doesn't play well with Pulse.