Thanks to Google preserving Flash on Linux through Chrome, that dream is alive in at least a rudimentary form.

ENGADGET: Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 now working on Linux through Google Chrome, more or less

Eventually, when users download Chrome, they will also get the latest version of Flash, rather than needing to install it separately, according to a blog post by Linus Upson, a vice president of engineering at Google.

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Experimenters at the Phoronix forums have found that Chrome 21 has support for the Stage 3D hardware acceleration needed to drive Epic Games' Flash conversion of UE3.

ENGADGET: Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 now working on Linux through Google Chrome, more or less