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Adobe AIR for Linux Alpha released
Adobe has just released an alpha version of AIR for Linux. It’s not feature complete but now that the framework structure is there, I guess we’ll see it reach stable status in no time. An SDK is also available.
You know what’s funny? There’s a project I’m building that I’ll want to make available as a standalone download later this year. I knew AIR was available for Windows and OSX only, but the Linux demographic is an important part of my project’s target. So here was I thinking “Hey, I wonder if Adobe AIR will be ported to Linux some day?”, when I decided to go looking for information about it on Google, having one of the first results returned being the news that it has just been released. Creepy.
Comments (3)
You are a so lucky man!
Posted by alrevez on 31/Mar/2008 at 9:43 am
Yeah definately. This is greate news for AIR developers. Will be interesting to see if more Eee PC like devices start popping up with AIR based software pre-installed. Great news.
Posted by Will on 31/Mar/2008 at 6:49 pm
alrevez: Not so lucky, as I couldn’t get it to run on my Ubuntu 7.1 distro. It just gave me a generic error message saying installation failed because it wasn’t authorized or whatever. It’s either because the system is it’s not “supported” – Adobe only lists Ubuntu 6.06 as a “supported” distro – or because I’m running on an amd64 system. I’m not sure what gives and I’ll wait until some other people try it out to see if there’s a solution.
Still, great news that they’re on track for a more stable release later though.
Posted by Zeh on 31/Mar/2008 at 8:28 pm