Adobe To Port AIR To Linux 218
unityofsaints writes "Up until now, Adobe hasn't done much in terms of porting its applications to Linux, as its only product to have recieved any kind of Linux implementation is Flash. This may be about to change because the company has announced a Linux port of AIR, its web application development software. No definite release date is mentioned in the interview with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, just a vague 'later this year.'"
People use Photoshop to Dev the Web too Adobe! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:People use Photoshop to Dev the Web too Adobe! (Score:4, Insightful)
Google took that approach with picassa and the results are horrible.
Native GTK please. If gimp, pidgin, sylpheed, gvim, etc. can be cross platform, then certainly it wouldn't be too large a task for a company the size of Adobe to do the port the other way around.
Re:People use Photoshop to Dev the Web too Adobe! (Score:5, Insightful)
Please note, of the programs you listed, combined they are a drop in the bucket in terms of code base and complexity compared to the full Adobe Suite. You may not agree with commercial software and that is fine, but don't try and pass it off as less than it is.
More Info... (Score:5, Insightful)
So Slashdot rejected the story submission about Adobe's release of AIR, and announcement that they were open-sourcing the Flex 3 SDK. And had released a new open-source project site for Flex, Tamarin and a few other products. Nope...that stuff isn't noteworthy to Slashdot's editors.
Bah!...rest assured if there is any political BS topic it'll be posted (even if it's been posted 2-3 times and is a year old).
So yes...
> Adobe AIR launches
> AIR being ported to Linux
> Flex Builder 3 being ported to Linux
> Flex 3 SDK being open sourced
What about making Flash actually work (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I think we deserve an answer (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:People use Photoshop to Dev the Web too Adobe! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:People use Photoshop to Dev the Web too Adobe! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:People use Photoshop to Dev the Web too Adobe! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:People use Photoshop to Dev the Web too Adobe! (Score:5, Insightful)
Speaking as a programmer myself, I know the step from linux code running on macintel or vice versa is not an extreme step to take. I release demos on all three major platforms and by using libraries that helps us with input/output (such as glfw and audiere, but there are plenty of others for each use) it's not a huge task to take on.
And this day of age your code (or 99% of it) shouldn't been done in assembly either, so no problem porting to other platforms really. And they don't utilize sound
Re:People use Photoshop to Dev the Web too Adobe! (Score:3, Insightful)
In the case of Photoshop, I would suspect that many of those potential users are simply using Mac OS X as their platform of choice these days.
You've got to develop and QA against something, and as anyone who has worked with a variety of distros knows, they often just aren't drop-in interchangeable. This question is even more important, as it highlights fragmentation of the Linux desktop userbase. "Linux" doesn't really refer to a single desktop platform target. WINE may help to insulate against some of the lossage here by adapting Linux to a single platform spec (unfortunately, Windows)... but I doubt it'll cover all bases.
Specific to the Adobe Creative Suite apps, what about fully color-managed workflows? Do modern Linux distros have any support for monitor calibration? I'll assume that for soft-proofing and printing, the Adobe apps would handle the print ICC profiles internally as they do on other platforms.
Re:I think we deserve an answer (Score:4, Insightful)
1. Adobe ported Photoshop to Linux and renamed it to the gimp. (We're all hoping it's not this one).
OR
2. The gimp is a viable replacement for Photoshop for Adobe's target group (professionals).
OR
3. Slashdot users don't already know about the gimp. If this was an article discussing Photoshop alternatives for Linux, maybe it would be nice to mention the gimp; it's not. These comments wouldn't be so annoying if they didn't show up every single time there is an article about Adobe. The "use Linux!" comments on every Windows article can be funny (sometimes) because at least everyone knows they're more or less joking.
The gimp is not Photoshop, and is still missing some features that professionals really need, it isn't a viable replacement yet.
Comming after AIR (Score:4, Insightful)
Here is one article on arstechnica [arstechnica.com] that has a little more detail. I'm sure you can google for more.
Re:No thanks. (Score:2, Insightful)
You say that like you believe you deserve to buy these products at prices you like. This is capitalism: the market will bear these prices, so these are the prices they charge.
Those who can afford the Adobe Creative Suite often make enough on a single job to pay for their license. Sure, it'd be swell if the programs were all free, but I can point to several of the Creative Suite competitors that are still trying to catch up after years and years of development. Sometimes free software moves faster, sometimes paid does. In the case of creative software, it seems to me that paid software moves faster, and so produces the sharpest, most powerful tools.
If you can't or don't want to buy the Suite or elements thereof, several Adobe products now come in inexpensive versions with fewer features, but which suffice for most purposes.
As for free software, I use it daily, and both my personal occupations and the company I work for depend on it. I maintain a popular LGPL'd package. (No it's not a "creative" tool.) Free software is great, but it doesn't cover every need. Sometimes the best tool for the job is commercial. I wouldn't argue that all of the components of the Creative Suite are the "best tool" -- some are, some aren't -- but combined, it's an awesome force, well worth paying for if you make money using these tools.
Re:People use Photoshop to Dev the Web too Adobe! (Score:3, Insightful)