Perhaps Adobe Really Cares About Linux?

Or maybe they don't. But at least their AIR for Linux team does! :)

Using the latest pre-release build, I noticed that one of my own AIR apps essentially broke the package manager. After reporting the problem through the appropriate channel, I managed to fix the issue... though it wasn't a pretty solution.

I promptly relayed this information to Adobe who requested to see my AIR app and its source. A couple minutes after sending the files to them, they replied saying the error was caused by an apostrophe in my application's name, and that the problem didn't occur for them after removing the apostrophe.

I replied, telling them that I had no issues on Windows or Mac with the apostrophe, at which point they told me that the bug was now logged in their database and they would be sure to fix it.

(In case you can't tell, I'm purposefully being pretty vague vis a vis the NDA I signed)

Having not been involved in any prerelease testing for proprietary software of this level, I'm not sure if this kind of intimate communication between the developers and the testers (which there are more examples of throughout the prerelease site) is normal, but honestly it's a relief for someone like me to have quick and direct contact with the actual developers.

Regardless, Adobe's made one Linux person very happy.