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Adobe Joins Linux Foundation, Develops AIR For Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-we-trust-these-guys-yet dept.

2muchcoffeeman writes "Adobe announced Monday that it is joining the Linux Foundation and alpha-released a Linux version of its new Adobe Internet Runtime environment, which allows Internet-enabled applications to run on Windows and Mac OS desktops, for Linux. According to Adobe, the alpha version lacks some key features that will be available in the final product and only runs with Sun Java, not GNU Java. Adobe also released an alpha of Flex Builder for Linux Monday."

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  1. Re:Excellent news. by PeterBrett · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...especially now that Flex is open source.

    Surely Flex has always been open source?

    The Free version of lex was around for decades before Adobe's marketing department rode roughshod over their prior claim to the name.

    News at 11: Adobe sues open source project for trademark violation?

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    Pirate Party UK
  2. What adobe should do... by DeadDecoy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I kinda wish adobe would make a decent pdf viewer for linux, or at least make the pdf format open ... The current viewer they have sucks as I have to keep agreeing to the license every time I open a document up and each document is opened in an opera-esque parent application (not individually). It's not really pleasant to use the other linux viewers either, as you can't do selection in a dual column document all that well. The flash support for linux, on the other hand seems pretty functional and having vibrant webapps isn't all that critical to me. I just wish Adobe would do a decent job at supporting their core applications on linux, e.g. Acrobat and Photoshop, but maybe that's just me. : /