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Adobe has announced AIR for Linux in a pre-alpha release on the Adobe Labs. Personally I think this is a great step for AIR and brings truth that Adobe knows what true cross-platform really is.

Adobe has released AIR and Flex 3, you can read more about it over at scriptplayground.com.

Mike Chambers has posted information about a project that allows you to use AIR and other applications on your OS. You may remember the Artemis project from Effective UI, but recently (few months now) that project has been abandoned. It seems this new project, CommandProxy is a start in the right direction and it will be interesting to follow it.

You can find more information on Mike’s blog.

Note: This project is not supported by Adobe in any way, this is simply developers coming up with a solution.

Jonathan Snook (creator of Snitter, an Adobe AIR based Twitter client) has written an in depth guide to building a To-do application using Adobe AIR. The article not only ends up becoming a real application, but Jon includes relevant information about working with AIR throughout the article.

For those that don’t know, Adobe AIR is a new technology from Adobe that allows you to develop web-style applications for the desktop, leveraging the power of HTML, Flash and even PDF. Adobe recently released a new version of the public beta (B3) last week which really starts to paint a picture of how awesome AIR 1.0 is going to be.

You may remember me posting some smaller AIR topics, as well as a learning application that I developed alongside Organi Studios earlier this year.

Be sure to check out the article over at 24 ways, and while your there, look at the other great articles.

Adobe has released BlazeDS which is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology.

It will enable developers to easily connect to server distributed data and push data to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications to create a more responsive RIA.

This is a big step forward in the world of AMF, which on that note, Adobe has also published the AMF3 spec.

It will be interesting to see how these new announcements affect existing tools, such as AMFPHP.