Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux?

LnxAddct writes "An article on CNet reports that Macromedia will start taking Linux more seriously. It will start this new initiative by making it's suite of tools run easily under WINE, then depending on the response it gets, it will port it's tools natively to Linux! Their Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, stated, 'What we've been investigating is, When will it be time to bring our tools to Linux? I think it might be happening now.' Maybe 2004 will be the year of Linux."

Comments

Thank god ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank god, because the only thing the world needs more is more adoption of Flash.

Screw that!

[i_am_syco]

I'm still waiting for Microsoft to port Office to Linux! Then I'll switch over.

Re:Screw that!

[AndroidonPPC]

And open office isn't good enough? besides, what's wrong with just using vi for word processing? Simple, reliable. if you are liike me and can spel prefect, vi will due everything you could evar want.

Re:Screw that!

[CleverNickName]

And open office isn't good enough? besides, what's wrong with just using vi for word processing? Simple, reliable. if you are liike me and can spel prefect, vi will due everything you could evar want.


And if you don't like vi, I hear that there's a text editor in emacs.

I've never been able to find it, but I hear it's there.

Re:Screw that!

[bfg9000]

Simply hit Ctrl-Meta-Shift-X-U-G, then Meta-Shift-Q-Shift-P-77, then type gvaomp-txt

Don't worry, it becomes quite natural after a while.

Re:Screw that!

[Xenographic]

At risk of being branded a heretic by both sides, I *think* the text editor command is:
M-x shell RET vi

So, it finally paid

[pcmanjon]

All them emails I sent them finally paid off!!

Re:So, it finally paid

[Zakabog]

Actually I think it was my snail mail which included a note that said "Please port flash to linux or I'll send more pics" and a pic of myself naked. Although your e-mail may have helped a bit too.

Re:So, it finally paid

[Flashbck]

Apparantly my numerous bug reports informing them of the major bug "flash doesn't seem to install under linux properly" finally paid off!

now the war begins

[sydres]

down with linux... uh I mean windows...um no.. uh...hmm!...down with cp/m cause everyone knows flash mx for cp/m sucked

Re:Flash plug-in?

[highwaytohell]

I'm quite sure Macromedia take Apple quite seriously :)

Fingers Crossed

[illuminata]

Oh Macromedia, please please please/b> bring DREAMWEAVER. I"m having a hell of a time with posting comments to Slashdot. It would make my life easier if I wouldn't have to do my own HMTL.

See, the problem is that

[melted]

slashdot crowd also expects them to:
1. Release the source under GPL
2. Give the product away for free
3. Hate Microsoft

Neither of which they do. So I predict this will be a complete failure.

Re:A leg up on Adobe

[Anonymous Coward]

BIG? leg up? what are you talking about? about 4 people use linux.

Re:Disney

[tepples]

So do you claim that all the money my family spent on Disney movies when I was growing up didn't go into lobbying for the Bono Act and the DMCA?

Re:Linux voids finally being filled...

[cubicledrone]

Um, no Flash player on Mac? They have the development application, but no player? That's interesting. How do Mac Flash developers test their work? Where did they get the OS X screen illustrations for the 900-page Flash MX book I read?

Re:Sweet.

[Anonymous Coward]

It would help if the fucking interface didn't use 100 separete windows.

Sweet

[Kremit]

Wow, Flash MX on Linux, natively? I might actually have to buy software!

One more void

[Sean Clifford]

Now if we could only get a port of FrontPage... :)

Re:Sweet.

[SageMusings]

I'm certain Macromedia's offshore programmers will be pleased to have a new project. Meanwhile, nothing significantly changes at home.

Re:A leg up on Adobe

[Anonymous Coward]

But that's still four times more than the number who use BSD.

Upgrade?

[traskjd]

Maybe it's time to trade up the Altair? ;-)

- traskjd

E-M-A-C-S

[IntelliTubbie]

Simply hit Ctrl-Meta-Shift-X-U-G, then Meta-Shift-Q-Shift-P-77, then type gvaomp-txt

Don't worry, it becomes quite natural after a while.

I find it much more intuitive to remap it to Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift ... since everyone knows that's what emacs stands for anyway.

Cheers,
IT

Re:E-M-A-C-S

[Tet]

Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift ... since everyone knows that's what emacs stands for anyway.

Well, not quite. It always used to stand for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. Of course, that was in the days when 8MB was a lot of memory. Nowadays, it seems like half the apps on my machine use that much...

Re:E-M-A-C-S

[sik0fewl]

While we're on the topic (off topic?):

From acronymfinder.com:

• Editor MACroS [obviously somebody without a sense of humour though of this one :)]
• Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping :-)
• EMACS Makes A Computer Slow :-)
• EMACS Makes All Computing Simple :-)
• EMACS May Allow Customized Screwups :-)
• Escape Meta Alt Control Shift :-)
• Eventually malloc()s All Computer Storage :-)