[osflash] What is the best "reliable" way to run Flash 8 on Linux?

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa]

>
> Other than that, it certainly does work
> well enough for me to get real work done.


Nice. Now if just Adobe would release a native Linux version of the next
Flash IDE (as well as FlexBuilder2)... =)

Either this or the day when wine will really make running win32 app on linux
a transparent experience.

Thanks,

Marcelo.


On 1/6/07, Timothee Groleau <flash at timotheegroleau.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:19, warren harding wrote:
> >
> http://blog.publicidadpixelada.com/2006/09/04/how-to-dreamweaver-and-flash-
> >8-running-on-ubuntu-dapper/
>
> On Gentoo, using wine 0.9.28, Flash installs directly without the need to
> do
> manual file copying or registry editing.
>
> I think it's been working since 0.9.24 actually, but I'm not sure about
> that.
>
> Anyway, under wine, the IDE works alright but I have encountered several
> issues: some flas just won't open for some reason and rendering of the
> Flash
> content in the IDE can be painfully slow (sometimes doesn't even refresh
> properly), especially if lots of text is involved. At times, typing text
> content into a static text field has so much latency that some letters are
> skipped. That's a quite irritating. Other than that, it certainly does
> work
> well enough for me to get real work done.
>
> Tim.
>
>
> >
> > That's what I do.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > On 1/6/07, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've just migrated my desktop to Ubuntu 6.06. So far the experience
> has
> > > been very pleasant ^^. However, I do miss using Flash 8 IDE as some of
> my
> > > projects are very design oriented. I know that there are two possible
> > > ways to run Win32 apps on a Linux box:
> > >
> > > 1) Using wine;
> > > 2) Running Windows on a Virtual Machine (Parallels, for example)
> > >
> > > Which one would you recommend? Is it viable? Could you share your
> > > experiences?
> > >
> > > Last, but not least, I could try replacing Flash 8 IDE by using Free
> > > vector drawing programs together with swfmill.. but that's another
> > > history. I'd like to know if it is viable to run Flash 8 IDE on Linux
> > > first :)
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Marcelo.
> > >
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