Adobe AIR is a technology that lets you run Internet applications on the desktop. With AIR you do not need a browser to run such desktop applications. This tutorial explains how you can install Adobe AIR 1.5.1 for Linux on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop and how you can install AIR applications.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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2 years 46 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago
I voted this down because
I voted this down because Adobe AIR is proprietary software. All proprietary software (which includes Adobe AIR) fails to respect the users' freedom.
schwoggel
2 years 46 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago
fs as in "Free Software"
I don't blame falko that he likes the software, but the fs in
fsdaily stands for "Free Software". How to install proprietary
software is not what I want to see here.
knowing-card
2 years 46 weeks 20 hours 53 min ago
My opinions
While Adobe AIR is proprietary, Ubuntu is not. Thus I think this story is related to free software. Just as a how to on installing Firefox or OOo on Windows would be.
And, while I did not vote this down, I will also not support it by voting it up. Let it go to the archives with our comments on it so that anyone who finds it will see what we have said.
Ubuntu87
2 years 45 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago
Hmm..
I respect your opinion.
However, I still to don't support it.
AIR, is still proprietary software after all.
So, I think an article that talks about alternatives to
proprietary software would probably make more sense here.