Today onwards, the penguin too will get a taste of the AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) alpha version. And, Adobe Systems has joined the Linux Foundation to focus on Linux for Web 2.0 Applications.

Adobe’s AIR is meant to enable developers create RIA (Rich Internet Applications) and take Web applications to the desktop and store data offline. AIR will enable developers to create RIAs on the desktop using Web technologies such as HTML, Ajax, PDF, Flash, and Flex that they already employ. A free and open-source technology, it will allow companies with Websites to inhabit a permanent spot on people’s desktops, in a way similar to Google’s widgets. For consumers, AIR will reduce the wait time for downloading images and data, because the desktop is constantly updated while the computer is online.

Version 1.0 of AIR was made available last year for the Windows and Mac OS platforms, however release for Linux was deferred due to wait on the core Flash Player’s support for Linux to be finalized, as per the Adobe Web site (last year).

Major news that follows is Adobe collaborating with the Linux Foundation (LF), a non-profit organization that works towards the development of Linux. Through this association, Adobe plans to work with the involved community to ensure Adobe RIA technologies are compatible across the Linux software platform; support for RIA on Linux has been limited until now. Adobe deems LF as a valuable resource that provides a platform to be able to accomplish this mission, as quoted on the LF Web page.

In order to install RIAs for the browser and the desktop, Adobe currently provides major RIA technologies for Linux users such as Adobe Flash Player and now also Adobe AIR.

Article source - http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Now_AIR_for_Linux_Adobe_Teams_with_Linux/551-88069-580.html

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