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Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the possible-plans-of-action dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Screw that! by Roelof · · Score: 0, Redundant

    vi will let you pipe your text through ispell easily enough :)

  2. Re:Sweet. by Flashbck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is the best news that I seen all week! I just wrote an Ask Slashdot (rejected) article yesterday asking why Macromedia and Adobe will not port their software to linux. Photoshop runs fine under WINE but having Macromedia consider making an actual port is music to my ears!
    I've been waiting to regain that 3G partition that windows hogs up!

  3. The year of Linux? by andrew.hill · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've been reading slashdot for at least the last 5 years (and I know there's lots on here who have been reading longer) -- EVERY SINGLE YEAR there seems to be a post that says "Maybe is the year of linux"