Adobe announced Thursday the official launch of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) 1.5 for Linux operating systems. AIR, a component of Adobe’s Flash platform, enables Web developers to use HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript and Flex, a free open source framework, to create Web applications outside of the browser. Rolled out as an alpha offering in March 2008, the release of the software from beta means that now Linux developers have the same tools as Windows and Mac developers, whose final versions of AIR were released in November.
