I came across this article on News.com last night but forgot to blog it before I went to bed:
Speaking at FlashForward, an annual conference for developers who work with Macromedia’s Flash format, Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch said the company would begin soon by offering optimizations to allow Flash MX, its main set of tools for creating Flash content, to work smoothly with Wine, an emulation program that allows Windows programs to run on a Linux PC. Depending on developer interest, the next step would be to produce Linux-native versions of Flash MX and other applications.
“What we’ve been investigating is, When will it be time to bring our tools to Linux?” Lynch said. “I think it might be happening now.”
That’s good news. I’ve been dual booting between various Windows version and Linux for around 5 years now– perhaps with my next workstation it will finally be time to make that switch to using Linux full-time and only booting to Windows when I need something really specific. Although, it’s going to be hard to resist switching to a Mac and OSX goodness…
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