A new release, Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux has been announced by Adobe Systems. The new release supports Fedora Core 8, Ubuntu 7.10 or higher, and openSUSE 10.3. The company says existing AIR applications running on Windows and the Mac "will just work" on Linux.Just a month after releasing the same technology for Windows and the Mac,
Adobe Systems has announced the general availability of Adobe AIR
1.5 for Linux operating systems.
In an interview with eWEEK, Adrian Ludwig, group product manager for Adobe's
Platform Business Unit, said Adobe AIR 1.5
for Linux supports Fedora Core 8, Ubuntu 7.10 or higher, and openSUSE 10.3.
"Applications can be built using Flash, ActionScript, HTML and
JavaScript," Ludwig said. "And because AIR
works on Linux now as well as Windows and the Mac, we'll see a lot of
applications already working on Linux" if they work on the other supported
operating systems.
"Outside of the browser, developers have traditionally had to choose
one or maybe two operating systems when building an application to keep
development time down and costs low," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of
the Ubuntu project, in a statement. "With Adobe AIR
1.5, companies and developers can easily target all three major operating
systems with a single code base, transforming the application development
paradigm and elevating Linux to the same level as Mac and Windows."
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