Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers (TIS) [LWN.net]

Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers (TIS)

Posted Apr 3, 2008 17:19 UTC (Thu) by rknight (subscriber, #26792)
Parent article: Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers (TIS)

As usual the fact that Linux runs on more than Intel platforms is completely ignored.  The
report doesn't indicate which Linux architectures are supported but my guess is that only
Intel (and 32-bit Intel) is supported.  So, this runtime is useless for those who run Linux on
PPC, MIPS, or any of the many other supported processors.

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Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers (TIS)

Posted Apr 3, 2008 20:24 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Considering that AIR provides basically the same sort of things that Mozilla Prism, XULrunner,
Google Gears and GWT, and other such free frameworks for "rich internet applications", I would
say AIR is useless to the free software community regardless of its portability.

Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers (TIS)

Posted Apr 5, 2008 14:40 UTC (Sat) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link]

It's only now that I realise Adobe is trying to remain a relevant software producer. Microsoft
is pushing .Net and its other technologies that get competitors out of the game and other
software platforms ofer more and more integration: Qt now has Phonon, SVG, XML, OpenGL widgets
and some SQL functionality, Mozilla foundation also offers a rich internet framework.

Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers (TIS)

Posted Apr 3, 2008 23:46 UTC (Thu) by chromatic (subscriber, #26207) [Link]

I complained about the useless processor description under system requirements yesterday, and
someone at Adobe updated the requirements.  Sadly, it appears that our fears (32-bit x86 only)
are correct.

Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers (TIS)

Posted Apr 4, 2008 2:23 UTC (Fri) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998) [Link]

I guess no-one has told them how popular amd64/x86-64 is these days.

This only affects some distros

Posted Apr 6, 2008 3:15 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Red Hat and Fedora (and, AFAIK SUSE as well) support both 32-bit and 64-bit code on their 64-bit distributions, and provide nspluginwrapper to allow 32-bit plugins to run in a 64-bit Firefox.

It's harder to run 32-bit executables on x86-64 in a Debian-derived distro. On Fedora they just work.