I took some time to test Posty on Linux. Inspite the fact that Adobe Air for Linux is still alpha version, I am surprised that Posty runs fine on major Linux distributions. The only issue, first identified by Daria, is that Posty is memoryless, that is you set it to remember login data, but when you run the application again, you have to re-enter data again. I am in contact with Adobe engineers to discuss the issue.

The first distro I tried is PcLinuxOs. Very easy to install on Paralles. It also associated the .air file extension to the Air installer application. AS you can see in the video, you click on the .air file and Posty installs.

Then I tried OpenSuse. Like PcLinuxOs was easy to install and set up. i had to run Adobe Air installer from the console. It is located in the /opt folder:


/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0


Finally I tried Knoppix, which was the quickest to boot.

I also tried CentOs, but it thrown an “Error loading the runtime” and Slax 6.0.7, which asked me to be root, whereas I already was logged as root.

UPDATE: Thanks to derek who was able to run Adobe Air and Posty on CentOS. Here is the screencast.

Credits:

• Distrowatch
• LivecdList

Thanks to Daria, who first tried installing Posty on Ubuntu 7.10 and inspired me to test Posty on other distributions.


UPDATE: An Adobe Air engineer told me that Encrypted Local Store is not yet implemented on the Linux version of Adobe Air.