It's great to see that there are many developers here that use linux. In one of the linux related announcements there was a mention that only 0.5% of air-runtime downloads were linux based. As a percentage it sounds ridiculously low, but this was still over 2 million downloads. When you take into account the 'demographic' of a linux user, 2 million linux users refers to a significant portion of the flash community. I assume that the percentage of linux users within the apache group is a lot higher than the 0.5%. If linux is important to any more developers out there, it would be good if you could voice your support. I am sure it helps the runtime team get a better understanding of how the linux runtime affects the flex developer community. I work in the visual effects industry and as most large animation and VFX houses we use linux pretty heavily for some of our internal applications. Flex gives us a lot of benefits. It offers some unique functionality for building intuitive interactive graphics-related application. And since it's flash our apps are cross platform, easy to deploy, backwards compatible, easy to manage, etc.
I understand that supporting the linux runtime must be very complicated and costly, and we could help define some acceptable solutions or even some acceptable limitations. The pepper implementation sounds like an acceptable solution to us. I also liked the idea that was suggested of having a headless AIR runtime. We could use that. Besides using it for testing, we could reuse existing code in command line tools. We could even hack together a local browser app that connects to a local headless air server in a way that mimics some of the functionality of a desktop app. Also... A big thanks to the Adobe folks who obviously put a lot of work on getting the flash player roadmaps and the white paper out there. This level of transparency helps us tremendously in planning our development. So thanks! Yiotis On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Rafael Santos <rsan...@spectacompany.com.br > wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:26, Left Right <olegsivo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Andrei, and that's why I'm developing on Linux for Windows users happily, > > for many years? :P Why do I need to care what users choose to be their > > platform - if they want to run their lovely apps on a toaster - that's > > fine, as long as they are happy, I'll be still using Linux and writing > for > > Toaster OS MegaPlus. I will not be happy to work on a toaster instead of > a > > PC though. I prefer to test against WinAPI emulation from Linux, then to > > run actual Windows because of other benefits of Linux. Eventually, I'll > > test on Windows just the same. But this scheme allows me to cut costs on > > proprietary OS'es (I don't need to buy them - more importantly, I don't > > need to buy all sorts of networking solutions from MS, their version > > control systems and so on - because I just happen to have a better > > alternative). I would only buy several examples of Windows Home edition > to > > test on that - a whole lot cheaper! > > > > Best. > > > > wvxvw > > > > Sorry, I must stop this, because we are already so far from the topic... > > > > > We also develop on Linux, deploy on Linux, but test mainly on Windows and > MacOS. Our development environment runs far better on Linux than anyother > OS. But this is also the way we chose to work so every company and > developer have the right to choose its own. If we stick to Linux we will > have to live with Chrome without a debugger version of the runtime as well > (which would be very hard). > > > Rafael Santos > Specta >
