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- sirdaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Ok so it doesn't include the design view as it does in windows, but any porting of a large application is a huge step in the right direction. Other businesses should take notice!
- anshuman, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22Thanks adobe , This appears to be your first steps supporting OSS :) , keep it going till complete Adobe suite is available for Linux :).
- ripzone, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Finally Adobe, now open-source Flash and all will be well!
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Thanks, Adobe (and jd)!
- shad0walker, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15*sells his soul to whatever supernatural force is required so they port their full app range, or just photoshop, eitherway*
- etx313, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I must say Adobe has really stepped it up this year. CS3 is all around killer, and they are bringing more stuff to linux. Well done Adobe! Keep it up! _golf clap_
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13wooo this is awesome!
- jbus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I guess the decision makers at Adobe have finally started to realized that the only way that Microsoft will not be able to "Netscape" them is by evolving into a truly cross platform company, which will allow for easier adoption of both Linux and Mac for consumers and businesses. I really hope they devote enough resources to this effort.
- anthonywr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10First, a current version of flash, now this!. Did management change over there?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11good job adobe about time, maybe one day we can get a linux photoshop (not gimp)
- Bamborzled, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Because everyone uses it.
Wait, what? ;) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Even more interesting than Flex is Adobe's AIR, that will also be available on Linux. It would allow developers to very quickly build cross platform desktop applications.
- tofuoni, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I find that I hardly ever use the design view anyway. It's a lot like what you end up doing with HTML. When you start out, you want to use a WYSIWYG editor, but then eventuallly you don't need it. I just bind a key to the compile command and occassionally compile the app and take a look at it. It uses compile behind (is that what it's called?) so it's compiling modules while you're typing anyway, so when you do the real compile, it only takes a second or too.
- RyeBrye, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3a better way to describe it is a way to generate Flash content programatically via XML instead of via Flash's pain-in-the-ass GUI.
- debuggercll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Dugg down for the use of 'duh'.
- SirDiggalot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I expect that the final Linux version won't be free. Alpha versions (like this) are often free.
- nixfu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You mean for 32-bit browsers. 64-bit users can run it fine...just as long as you use a 32bit browser
- mikemx, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2dugg down for being typical ungrateful whiny linux user
- SirDiggalot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Great news. Flex is so clean and well designed. I doubt MS Silverlight is going to make much of a dent in this market.
- RyeBrye, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This makes sense for Adobe - and it makes a lot more sense to port Flex Builder over now rather than Photoshop or Flash... Aside from the fact that it's relatively easy for them to port over the builder since the SDK already runs in Linux - the people who use Flex are generally programmers, not graphics people.
I'm using Flex builder on OS X, and it's pretty nice - but the other flex developer on my team has had to use VMware to use it. I'm sure this will make him happy. - shanesemler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Now if only Adobe would release their creative suite for Linux.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4A current version for 32-bit users you mean?
Phillip. - JCDenton513, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4It's basically an alternative to Ajax.
Also wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flex - spltimg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I have been waiting for this for some time. Thank you Adobe for supporting Linux
- bobbagoose, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1On an almost completely unrelated note, and of virtually no significance to anyone but me. If I could get After Effects and Illustrator on Linux I'd switch for good. Yeah!
- bffoley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Visual Basic of Linux meaning widely-used RAD tool or meaning ***** language/IDE for people who don't really want to learn how to program?
- gene6482, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2can somebody tell me what flex is?
- andywebb95, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Awesome news and definitely another step in the right direction.
- nixfu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1>Why write good software for a ***** operating system?
== Photoshop + Windows - jdavid, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3If you want companies to support open source, then please buy the product.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Eclipse doesn't really have enough features (out of the box) to be a tool for those who don't want to learn how to program. All the FOSS programming tools are focused on experienced programmers who can see past GUI builders and other features that are less useful than they first seem and instead promote more useful things like refactoring, debugging, testing and VCS integration.
Also I'm not sure Eclipse will be the standard IDE 2 years from now. It and Netbeans 5.5 are very close. Netbeans 6 is looking fantastic. Baring simple inertia, CDDL hatred and misunderstanding (many think Netbeans is just a Java IDE) I think Netbeans 6 will take a lot of market share away from it (especially if RoR lives up to the hype). - fires, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Looks like Adobe is slowly but surely starting to take GNU/Linux seriously. I use and develop FLOSS on a daily basis but I have no problem with paying for and using commercial proprietary apps (if they were available on Linux) since I believe that there are some areas in software where the FLOSS model doesn't deliver (for now... ). If propellerhead's reason was ever ported to GNU/linux I'd be in heaven. Here's hoping Adobe will continue the trend with the rest of their suite.
- mikemx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1lol by everyone you mean the less than 1% of people that use linux on desktop
- sybesis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Woah......
better than anything else....
hope they will kick off silverlight....:) - ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Adobe releases one of their first development tools for Linux, (beta or alpha does not matter) and it has only "545 diggs" in 24 hours.
Could it have something to do with very suspicious amount of diggs and baseless (and digged high levels!) comments on "MS Silverlight" story?
http://www.digg.com/design/Silverlight_technology_ ...
What if the same people paid to digg up that story also trying to digg down this story too? Does this site have any kind of anti abuse team? - ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It is all market issue and the serious alergy to closed source binaries under Linux. Their Creative Suite could be converted from Cocoa (OS X) to OpenStep at least without too much work. It may change if thousands of web designers chooses to use Linux/BSD. I don't think Adobe has a specific issue with Linux unlike MSFT.
- rrrrw22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is awesome, flexbuilder is way better than flash professional.
- shanesemler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Agreed.
- ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The super natural force you look for is OpenStep. A little help and support, it will be identical framework to Cocoa which they already code on (OS X).
WindowMaker is more important than you can imagine. - ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If you will be paranoid, be paranoid about Icaza puppet written Silverlight port and entire Novell deal for 6 months. They see a market on Linux based environments and they simply release software to MAKE MONEY and improve it. It is not a "crime" or "evil agenda".
Abusing a financially shaked company to ship fake open frameworks is a much more dangerous and suspicious activity. - ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If just newbie Linux fans have seen that fact? They wouldn't cheer so called open "silverlight".
Someone at Redmond is really pissed about people using all operating systems are able to access first class (in mmedia terms,not quality) top content as Youtube.com. Their system is really broken since top sites doesn't say "Sorry, XP Windows Media Player 10 only", they simply say "Update to latest Flash" which the latest version with all features available on OS X, Linux and even FreeBSD (with hacks).
Can you imagine how dangerous it is for their never taken serious lame media platform? - ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Go to Silverlight stories and attack them instead unless you are paid for MS to undermine Flash stories. It is your CHOICE to use/buy that or not, not like they are threatening you.
- gwizzla, on 10/24/2007, -0/+0good idea considering how many users are jumping the vista ship.
- regeya, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1http://*****.com/
SERIOUSLY, people, stop rewarding vulgar displays of ignorance and laziness. It's wrong to post a story about 'flex' without specifying what it is; it's just as wrong to reward someone for saying, 'duh, what is it? somebody tell me.' - pestario, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Strange. I thought Flex Builder was something I had to buy. Is this really free? If so, that's awesome!
- canthraxp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What? Good software is already available for that ***** operative system (wi..ows); now they are making it for linux, that's what the news is about ;D.
- pejeno, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1And they're using Eclipse, which is called to become the Visual Basic of Linux within a year. How could the poster miss that when he sent the new?
Anyway, terrific work :-) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1This is an attack to Gnu, and Free Software, in attempt to make it easier for Gnu/Linux folks to become dependent upon their non-free software. If they truly supported OSS, FOSS, or Free Software, they would release their apps as such, not release their apps that run on Free Software.
- dudley9, on 05/25/2008, -1/+0http://www.genericsmed.com/
http://www.generics.ws/ - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Hold on wait a second. Just because they are releasing software that runs on Linux doesn't mean they are supporting Free Software. Be careful, if they were really supporting OSS, FOSS, or Free Software, they would release their apps as such, not to run on such software. If anything this is an attack, in attempt to make it easier for Gnu/Linux folks to become dependent upon their non-free software.
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