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Comments on: Adobe AIR launches on Linux

The cross-platform runtime has come to Linux, mostly intact, and full of the same power that makes it a winner on Windows and Mac.

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by benjaminstraight September 16, 2008 10:41 AM PDT: Good to finally have it on Linux; Like this Reply to this comment


by seanupton September 16, 2008 11:39 AM PDT: We need Adobe to work toward a free/oss runtime (flash player)... Sun can do it, so can Adobe, if they care enough to (maybe minus codecs).; Like this Reply to this comment


by adoberob September 16, 2008 1:00 PM PDT: Hi Matt,

Thank you mentioning the Adobe AIR for Linux beta. Our goal with this beta release is to collect as much feedback as possible from the Linux community including end-users and developers.

Whereas many features were not yet finished with the alpha released earlier this year on our Labs website, the beta is near feature complete and a majority of AIR applications that have been running on Mac and Windows will now run on Linux (the release notes document a few yet to be completed features).

It's very exciting that a Mac developer that has never been exposed to Linux can now deploy desktop applications to Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora that run the same on Mac and Windows. In addition, a Linux developer can begin deploying applications to Mac and Windows. Powerful new features like full screen and system tray are now available in the beta.

We are still in beta so there are clearly bugs and issues we're working on before we ship the final version.

Also, although the browser-based version of Buzzword is available today, it is not yet available as an AIR application.

Thank you,

Rob Christensen
Sr. Product Manager, Adobe AIR; Like this Reply to this comment


by Matt Asay September 16, 2008 1:53 PM PDT: Thanks, Rob. I'm fairly certain that I used an AIR-based version of Buzzword. Perhaps the one <a href="http://www.colettas.org/?p=221">mentioned here</a>? I've had some inside access in the past to Adobe applications, and perhaps this was one of them. Or I could simply be misremembering. Regardless, thanks for the clarification.; Like this Reply to this comment


by wildchief October 1, 2008 2:08 AM PDT: Adobe Air to me is finally bridging the gap between the desktop and the browser. I wonder what it will do for the mobile platform. Adobe decision to bundle Air with PDF is bound to help adoption. Also services like this that require AIR will also be of great use for AIR http://www.newzdog.com; Like this Reply to this comment

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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.