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Article: Adobe Gives Linux AIR Time.
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- Linux Gram
- Article date:
- December 22, 2009
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Adobe's AIR for Linux, the runtime engine that supports rich Internet apps (RIAs), has caught up with its Windows and Mac siblings.
The company has released AIR 1.5 for Linux, the first time the Linux desktop variant has made it as a production-grade, Adobe-supported release.
And now also for the first time AIR for Windows, Mac and Linux all have the same feature. For a while there the Linux 1.1 beta had widgetry that wasn't in the others.
Adobe has been less pressed to come up with the Linux cut because Linux is pretty scarce on the corporate desktop; it quotes Gartner's 1.8% number. With the new arrival, Adobe suggests that may change if only ...