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.
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.
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.
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.
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.