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Adobe AIR for Linux

Worth a quick comment, Air for Linux has an alpha release up and ready for you to try out.

From Adobe Labs: "Our main goal for this release is to begin to get the base features in place so you can share your early feedback and begin testing your Adobe AIR applications. This alpha is not feature complete. For a list of the specific features included in this alpha release, please see the release notes. "

Please take a moment to download it, try it out and give us feedback!


Posted by Dave McAllister on August 18, 2008 9:10 AM |

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Good first step, but I hope there is trajectory at Adobe toward open-sourcing the runtime (all of it, or at least all of it minus codecs) in the next year or two. ;)

As it is now, offering AIR as a "free beer" application for Linux, where free-as-in-Free alternatives like Prism exist and most users and distributions embrace a free ecosystem, is like offering free beer to a devout Muslim.

Sean

> Answer, of sorts: well, we're taking steps to make sure that we are open as makes sense for our business AND for the web. We've published the specifications for SWF and for FLV/F4V, so it's possible to build a swf-compatible application. I never say never to anything, though...

Posted by: Sean Upton | August 18, 2008 3:16 PM