Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up at www.adobe.com/go/airlinux in hopes,
it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning
adherents. It’s English-only.
The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage
the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said.
The company says Linux developers can use HTML, AJAX, Flash
and Flex to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy to desktops
across operating systems.
Conversely RIA developers can put their desktop apps to
Linux users without writing additional platform-specific code, giving the Linux
platform access to programs previously reserved for Windows and Mac.
Adobe figures that between Flex, AIR and the Adobe Flash
Player 9 Linux developers have a free platform for building, debugging and
deploying RIAs entirely on Linux across browsers and desktops.
About Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara is the Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.
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Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up at 
