Adobe released 1.5 version of their Air application for Linux. Adobe Air, is an application hybrid of the sorts that mesh’s the desktop application with a web application. I have been using Air to run twitter, however there are a slew of other applications that run on Air. Give it a try and see how slick it is.  Get Air

One other note, Adobe will now be releasing Air like flash at the same time for Mac, Windows, and Linux users at the same time for future releases. Rock On!

To Install Adobe Air on Ubuntu Linux 8.10, follow this:

Download Adobe Air: http://get.adobe.com/air/

It will download “AdobeAirInstaller.bin” to your default location. For me it downloaded to my desktop. Open a terminal:

Applications > Accessories > Terminal

$cd /home/user/Desktop (replace “user” with your userID)

To make sure we can install it, you can check the permissions, or just make it writable:

$chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin (this makes the file executable by the user)

Now install

$./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

This will generate the installer process, you will see the following screens. Since I had an older verison already installed, I am prompted to “update”, yours might just say “install”.

Voila, now you can go to a site like http://www.twhirl.org/ which is a twitter application that runs on AIR and simply click the “install now”.

Enjoy !