Adobe discontinues AIR for Linux; x64 .deb download available here
My understanding based on Adobe's public commentary is that third parties will be distributing derivatives of the AIR program that will be available on Linux. In the meantime, I'll make my X64 copy of the Debian/Ubuntu .deb file for the 2.6 version available here.
Much thanks to Ronny Roethof for his entry on converting the 32-bit .deb to X64.
Funny Unix/Linux Commands
Some of these seem to be platform-specific, but here's a funny look at some odd results you can get out of your shell: [link]
% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% “How would you rate Quayle’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.
% Unmatched “.
Unmatched “.
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
Real Linux Heroes #2
Here is an excellent video I found via dmiessler.com that gives a profoundly stirring demo of Compiz Fusion running on Gentoo on the desktop: [link]
This, more than anything I've seen in a couple months or longer, gives me some motivation to finally ditch Windows for good. Now if I could just learn GiMP.....
Real Linux Heroes #1
Chris Lamb shows how to give cp a progress bar like wget: [link]
This might seem like some very minor hackery, and it is. But of such things are real advances made, eh?
This guy has brightened every single working day of the rest of my life. Thanks, Chris.
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