Topic: adobe

PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop

It was only a matter of time before someone would point AI coding tools Photoshop and get it to build a copy. PhotoCraft is that copy – an open-source, cross-platform image editor written in Rust. […]

8 October 2026
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Wine Patches Bring Newer Versions of Adobe Photoshop to Linux

Wine patches finally fix Adobe Creative Cloud installer on Linux, letting you install Photoshop 2021 and 2025 without copying files from a Windows VM.

18 January 2026

This Script Helps Install Adobe Creative Cloud on Linux

You can install Photoshop on Linux using PlayOnLinux using a new script. The script will install Adobe CC apps correctly on Ubuntu and other Linux distros.

9 October 2017
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Adobe Brackets 1.11 Released, Is ‘Fully Supported’ on Linux

A new version of the Brackets text editor is available to download, and Adobe say the Linux build is 'at par with what you get on Mac and Windows'.

26 September 2017
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Evince 3.26 Will Let You View Adobe Illustrator & CBR Files

Evince, the default document viewer on Ubuntu, is adding support for more file formats. The next stable release, Evince 3.26, due in October, will allow you to view Adobe Illustrator files on Linux without needing […]

26 July 2017
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Adobe Has Decided To Support Flash Player on Linux Again

Adobe has announced that it plans to start supporting Adobe Flash for Linux — 4 years after it abandoned Flash on Linux.

5 September 2016

Adobe Pulls Linux PDF Reader Downloads From Website

Things are about to get tricky if you need to use Adobe's own PDF reader application on Linux: the company has pulled the download links.

1 October 2014

First Look at Brackets for Linux – The Open Source Editor from Adobe

Adobe’s open source editor has finally come to Linux after months of hard work by the community. We've given it a quick overview to give you a taste of Adobe's latest efforts.

17 August 2013

[How To] Install Photoshop CS2 in WINE

Adobe have apparently made Photoshop, along with several other Creative Suite 2 applications, free to download. And the best bit? Photoshop CS2 will even run on Ubuntu.

7 January 2013
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Adobe Abandons Flash on Linux

Adobe will no longer provide new releases of Flash Player for Linux after version 11.2, the company has today announced. Google will, instead, take over the implementation of Flash Player via a new plugin API […]

22 February 2012
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Adobe Flash 11 Released, Ready for Download

The latest 'stable' (stop chuckling at the back) version Adobe's Flash Player has been released.

4 October 2011
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Flash Player 11 Hits Release Candidate

The first release candidate of Adobe's Flash Player 11 has been made available.

7 September 2011
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Faster Adobe Flash 11 Beta 2 Released

A second beta release of Adobe Flash 11 has escaped into the wild.

14 August 2011
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Adobe Edge for Linux? That’d Be Nice…

With Adobe this week announcing a new HTML5 design tool for web developers and creatives, many folk are wondering whether this could, finally, be the start of official Adobe application support on Linux.

4 August 2011
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Adobe Axes Air for Linux

Adobe are to cease providing official builds of Adobe Air on the Linux desktop. Citing 'flat growth' and low-uptake of the official Linux Air runtime as contributing factors to the decision, Adobe will instead 'focus resources' on mobile clients - such as Android - whose market share is increasing by the day.

15 June 2011
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Adobe on Creative Suite for Linux: "No plans"

The on-going campaign to persuade Adobe to release (at least parts) of their 'Creative Suite' software on Linux is beginning to resemble a game of tic-tac-toe: One second it appears to be going one way and then, slam, a big fat 'X' falls down, and the game is off in a different direction.

3 May 2011
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Adobe Flash Player 10.3 beta released

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 beta saw release yesterday/today/tomorrow (depending on your timezone) - but what's new? Quite a bit. Read on for more.

9 March 2011
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Creative suite for Linux: an update [updated]

An Adobe employee has urged Linux users wanting native Creative Suite applications for their OS to submit a 'Feature request directly' to the company's engineering team.

15 December 2010