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Finally, Adobe released the first beta of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) for Linux. This is huge news! It makes choosing air even easier for business OR consumer apps. This release is not feature-complete, though, and this FAQ should fill you in on where it’s at: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR_for_Linux:FAQ

Generally speaking in this release you can:

• Runtime/Application Install/Update and Uninstall.
• HTML Loader with JS support to render HTML within AIR applications.
• Local Database APIs
• File system support with support for user folders like Desktop/Documents etc.
• Desktop Integration with Drag and drop, clipboard support
• Windowing support with System chrome none/standard
• Basic transparency
• Menu support with context menu, menu bar, pop up menus and menu events.
• Networking
• Network change detection (Event.NETWORK_CHANGE )
• System wide idle detection (userIdle Event)
• NativeApplication APIs
• Capabilities (OS) API
• Mouse events
• Detection of running application (InvokeEvent.INVOKE)

but you can’t

• Print
• Use hardware acceleration
• Perform badge installation
• Use the keyboard accelerators
• Or screen API’s