Mike Melanson is the lead engineer of the Linux Adobe Flash Player team. Finally, some word from the inside! Check it out here.
It looks to me like their just working out the final bugs and getting ready for a release. My guess would be late this year, early ‘07.
Also check out the Adobe Linux Flash Player dev blog, here.

Until then, here’s how to dupe a website into thinking you have flash 9 installed.
First update to the latest available flash for linux.

 Then,

The Kororaa Project is a binary version of Gentoo Linux. For more information on Gentoo, visit this page. Whats the point of Kororaa? Kororra brings us a simplified install of Gentoo and if you’ve ever taken the time to install Gentoo manually, then you can appreciate Kororaa. Kororaa offeres a Live CD as well as a Install CD. The Live CD comes complete with XGL and Compiz architecture. Thats right, no messy Compiz installs. For those of you who don’t know, compiz is a fancy window manager that takes advantage of modern video cards. Check it out here.

 For more info visit the Kororaa Project page.

Gimpshop - Gimpshop is a modified version of The Gimp (the GNU Image Manipulation Program), that offers a more Photoshop like layout. Gimpshop was created by Attack of the Show’s Scott Moschella.

Photoshop: 

 Gimpshop:

Gimpshop is available to all major Operating Systems (Mac, PC Windows, Linux…). To get gimpshop, head over to the project’s page on freshmeat.net for the latest builds, or you can build it from source, get it from Scott’s page (linked above).

Gimpshop Review [PCMag.com] 

Gimpshop Review [About.com] 

How to Install the Linux port of GimpShop

Eeek…

I have [had] a two partition setup, one Ubuntu and one Kubuntu. The Kubuntu install was merely for evalution purposes and the Ubuntu, my primary. I decided the other night that I wanted to ditch Kubuntu and install a fresh copy of Ubuntu (a test run for XGL+Compiz) and later maybe replace the original with Windows XP. Well, one word sum it up: "Oops". I accidentally formated the entire disk. All of my documents, web pages, pictures (including family pictures), music, bookmarks; all of it is now gone. It really hasn’t sunken in yet, but in a strange way I feel sort of releaved. That might not be the best word to describe it, but I can’t think of a better one at this moment.