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- Fixthemedia, on 09/17/2008, -1/+31Native Photoshop/Illustrator please.
- ChayesFSS, on 09/17/2008, -3/+13Just don't ever ask me to use Adobe Reader on Linux
- king_aaronj, on 09/16/2008, -2/+11I love this! Unfortunately my "daily driver" is running Ubuntu 64, so no support for that yet.
- jbschwi, on 09/17/2008, -1/+9How about making shockwave player for linux?
- dullnation, on 09/17/2008, -2/+9That would be the only thing that would make me move to Linux. Well, add the whole creative suite, then you're talking.
- miralize, on 09/17/2008, -3/+9finally linux is getting the software support it deserves
- KAMiKAZOW, on 09/17/2008, -1/+7Adobe has to rewrite PS anyway for the Cocoa port. If Adobe used Qt instead, a Linux version would be no significant effort.
- dullnation, on 09/17/2008, -3/+8Please use Adobe Reader on Linux.
- diggerpleez, on 09/17/2008, -0/+5FYI, if anyone else needs it:
debian/ubuntu types: sudo dpkg -r adobeair-enu
rpm types: rpm -e AdobeAIR_enu - dorkdork777, on 09/17/2008, -0/+4Foxit.
- DarkJesus, on 09/17/2008, -0/+4Yeah. I wish adobe would pull their thumbs out of their arses and release 64 bit flash and air.
- bsmang, on 09/17/2008, -5/+9This particular Linux-using web application developer doesn't care.
- Culyt, on 09/17/2008, -0/+4evince is an awesome opensource pdf reader.
I don't mind the official one either now but don't see much point in using it over the opensource one.
☢ - cooppw02, on 09/17/2008, -1/+4O RLY?
Where is my 64 bit Flash? - srg13, on 09/17/2008, -1/+4The Adobe CS apps were ported to Carbon and/or Cocoa, so it's not that hard to imagine that the vast majority of the code would be written in a platform independent way. It would make absolutely no business sense not to do so - as trying to maintain the Windows and Mac versions separatley would be a nightmare... So it's doubtful that a Linux port would be that difficult.
Oh, and before you start throwing marketshare statistics around, you have to consider that most visual effects, grading, 3D moddelling, and compositing for major motion pictures is done on Linux. - nightman, on 09/17/2008, -0/+3If some website will tell You that AIR app is not available for Your system (Linux) don't give up and just search the source of the page for the "appurl" keyword. You will find it, You will find the ".air" file link.
- Darkhacker, on 09/17/2008, -4/+7The fact of the matter is that Adobe is a company that wants to make money and Photoshop (among the other packages in CS) is a program with millions of lines of code. It would be a massive investment for them to port it to a platform with 1% of the desktop market with little guarantee of success.
If Photoshop via Wine and the few Adobe products that are available for Linux (Flash Player, Air, etc.) become popular. I think then you'll see Adobe more likely to consider a port. I think the industry as a whole is a little shaky when it comes to entering the Linux market for proprietary software because it's still uncharted territory and not known if it would be profitable. - wigren, on 09/17/2008, -0/+3Not only do you suck, but you do it poorly.
- GhostFreeman, on 09/17/2008, -0/+3Don't ask me to ever use Adobe Reader EVER.
- diggerpleez, on 09/17/2008, -0/+2Now, if I could only figure out how to get Alpha 1 off my system so that I can install it.
- Darkhacker, on 09/17/2008, -1/+3"Oh, and before you start throwing marketshare statistics around, you have to consider that most visual effects, grading, 3D moddelling, and compositing for major motion pictures is done on Linux."
The rendering farms are Linux, yes, but the artists themselves are probably using OS X for their work. The rendering farm isn't necessarily the same platform as the workstation. - krc1, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2"Linux users, check out our top 10 apps worth installing Adobe AIR for."
And you'll find 3 of the apps are marked "(Windows/Mac only)." The other 7 are crap you can live without. - DestroyFascism, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2I can't wait the 5 minutes it takes to load even when using a Super computer to run Crysis...
- DarkJesus, on 09/17/2008, -0/+2I thought it would be fien since it is still using the same libraries. It just needs to be compiled for 64 bit.
- DestroyFascism, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1Adobe air multimedia but no multimedia suite to create seamless multimedia with? Still waiting for photohop.
- RoboDonut, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1I didn't say anything about Java anywhere and I'm not a Comp Sci major.
- LastDitchHero, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1If you are having trouble installing the beta, you may need to browse to ' /opt/ ' as root and delete the old Adobe Air folder. Also with the first one if you had firefox running it had trouble working (and maybe other browsers too)
- burrgrinder, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1It's a horrible PDF reader on all platforms. The built in OS features of OSX are better, evince is better, and I'm sure Windows has a better alternative too.
- srg13, on 09/19/2008, -0/+1"The rendering farms are Linux, yes, but the artists themselves are probably using OS X for their work. The rendering farm isn't necessarily the same platform as the workstation."
Not as much as you think - most of the effects, 3D modelling and animation, compositing and grading is done on Linux - only editing is generally done on Mac OS or Windows (using Final Cut Pro or Avid). - RoboDonut, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1I suppose you're right.
- wigren, on 09/17/2008, -3/+4Where's the last place you saw it?
- amoore2600, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1I worried this maybe as bad as sliverlight.......
- jjustin01, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1Wow, you would've thought that z-index support in Flash would've been more important, or maybe transparency. One of these days I will be able to use Linux as my daily OS, but sadly most of it requires Adobe fixing problems.
FYI, I have a child who loves http://www.nick.com . Try it under Linux and tell me if you can make it work. - nuxx, on 09/19/2008, -0/+1this is actually entirely incorrect. because you're forgetting applications like Twhirl and TweetDeck. two great twitter clients, I myself have used both on my Ubuntu machine to a good deal of success.
- Leopards, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1I think I'll wait for the final release version, and some worth while applications!!
- jjustin01, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1Here ya go
http://flickr.com/photos/angelofthenorth/243967310 ... - lilzaphod, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1How about writing for a player that isn't dead, instead?
I thought the .4% markeshare 64 bit whiners were bad, but this take the cake.
Shockwave is deader than Bea Aurthur's cooch. - bilangew, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1This great news and all, but I fail to see why to develop on this platform. I mean, why not Mono, for example? Adobe doesnt provide (for good reasons) system tinkering methods and functions.. the best you can do is to read/write files on the user's disk, but nothing more.
Sure, you can code in flash/HTML/whatever that floats your boat, but what for? (Yes, I get the fact that web-centric apps a la Pownce may be best suited for that platform, but I fail to see other uses) - 6dust, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1Right, a real programming language, like Java. Because we need more horrendously slow applications that eat up all of our memory.
Seriously, if you can't understand the direction of technology, and think that the merging of desktop applications and online capabilities is a "stupid idea" good luck finding development jobs in the future. - LastDitchHero, on 09/17/2008, -0/+0Hooray V4L 2 support. Try CrazyCam for some cool warhol effects. But I am having issues with Ora Time and Expense so I am off to resolved those!
- king_aaronj, on 09/17/2008, -2/+2Interesting points. However, Adobe Air has taken off and whatever they are doing is working great.
- dshPls, on 09/17/2008, -2/+2That'd probably be a pain in the ass. One of the ideas of Flash is to encapsulate content in a uniform player, so it looks the same to everyone. Right now the Mac and PC players sometimes offer different results when they're supposed to display the same thing... and it'd only be worse with another player. Of course it's no where as bad as browser compatibility issues, which I can't stand to deal with after using Flash all day.
- praavDa, on 09/18/2008, -0/+0AIR on linux is a good direction, but there is on obstacle on the road - display drivers. Maybe I am just unlucky, but on my laptop (with GeForce 8600M GT), when browsing web pages, few flash movies can slow down the whole system. When I installed the newest beta drivers and made few corrections (thanks to Google) - overall performance improved, but it still isn't as good as on windows:/
- mrBitch, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1Just because you haven't had good experiences using java does NOT mean that java is "slow".
As an example, try firing up Jake2 :
http://www.bytonic.de/html/jake2.html
" Jake2 is a pure Java port of the Quake2 game engine... "
Screenshots of Jake2 :
http://www.bytonic.de/html/screenshots.html - miralize, on 09/17/2008, -3/+2let me rephrase "finally linux is getting the software support it deserves and needs"
- dullnation, on 09/17/2008, -2/+1Windows is actually a much more popular platform for high end 3D creation, although OSX has become much more popular recently.
- e68895f, on 09/17/2008, -3/+2Yes, one should never be happy. Always complaining will lead to a better life....
- dshPls, on 09/17/2008, -4/+2Says who. I'm gonna go with Adobes judgment over yours, sorry.
- flightcrank, on 09/17/2008, -6/+2i c what u did thar
- RoboDonut, on 09/16/2008, -14/+4I'm really glad that Adobe puts in the effort to port their products to Linux, but I still fail to see how Adobe AIR could be useful. Web pages should be simple ("Web 2.0" is a plague), and applications should be written in a real programming language, not hacked together with ECMAScript and Flash. Blurring the line between two very different things a stupid idea.
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