Today, the world of Linux has become even more appealing. Linux developers can now use Web technologies to build desktop RIA’s. The AIR runtime, albeit in alpha flavor right now, is available for Linux as of today. I’ve been playing with AIR on Ubuntu last week and I really like it! Never before has it been that simple for a (web) developer to deploy an application on all major platforms (Mac, Win and Linux). We’re actually also showing some AIR apps running on Linux on the onAIR tour. This is also great news for the future of AIR. Lots of devices are actually running on Linux… I’m sure you can imagine what this means…
In addition an update to the Alpha version of Flex Builder for Linux has also gone live, which adds support for creating apps on AIR.
“Adobe is committed to delivering the technologies that enable developers everywhere to create the next generation of RIAs for the browser and the desktop,†said David Wadhwani, general manager, Platform business unit at Adobe. “With the alpha release of Adobe AIR for Linux and the Adobe Flex Builder for Linux alpha update, we’re delivering early releases of a first-class application runtime and RIA creation tool to the Linux community. This allows us to have an open conversation with users during our development process, which will give us very valuable developer insights.â€
In addition, we’re also announcing that Adobe is joining the Linux foundation!
It’s a great day!
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