fyi, os installed on desktops: linux = 0.69% apple = 7.31% -> 92% win info from: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/04/1730254
.. mind you can emulate the windows flash-authoring with wine. tong. On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 12:37 -0200, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > We want freedom and high quality software. Flash, the platform and the > tools (provided by Adobe and former Macromedia) are high-quality > software. Before I start to argue on the point of this message, I > would like to say that I have nothing against Windows. I used to be a > happy XP user for a long time, using Flash IDE and other great dev. > tools available to it. However, when you expand your intellectual > horizons you want more, you inexorably pursuits freedom. > > Linux (and other *nix systems) used to be a myth to me. Not anymore. > After being hooked by the Ubuntu fever, I started going deeper into > the architecture of the POSIX systems and found out the true meaning > of freedom and power. > > Linux/*nix as a desktop environment has come a long way in the last > few years. It is currently in a state that it is truly a rival to MS > Windows. > > As a Flash lover and deseloper, I ask you "stop being > Windows-oriented"... if you don't know Linux yet, take some time to > look into it, you'll be amazed. > > Flash (the development tools) should detach itself from Windows and > start being transparent on the platforms it supports. > > Linux has a great potential to be the next-gen. creative platform. > Adobe should start thinking about porting its software to the *nix > platform! > > I'm currently still using XP only becouse of this (Flash IDE, > Photoshop, etc). For everything else (even pure AS coding, which I use > Eclipse+FDT) I use Linux. Macs are a good alternative to windows, but > I don't sympathize with their philosophies and its way too expensive, > maybe someday. > > What do you think? > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org -- [) | 5 |< † |2 3 3 _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
