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.

Posty on PCLinuxOs from funkyboy on Vimeo.



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


Posty on OpenSuse from funkyboy on Vimeo.



Another mainstream distro I tested is Mandriva. Apart from a warning in the console all went fine.

Posty on Mandriva from funkyboy on Vimeo.



I already had an installation of Ubuntu. Setting up Posty was easy.


Posty on Ubuntu 8.04 from funkyboy on Vimeo.

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

Posty on Knoppix from funkyboy on Vimeo.



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.


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.

I created a quick screencast which shows how simple is to microblog by means of Posty.

Posty Screencast from funkyboy on Vimeo.

 

auto-explicative screenshot. Check Posty out!

Update: Final version available here.
A new release of Posty is available, with support to four networks: twitter, jaiku, pownce and tumblr. A quick recap of the features:

• write a message a post it to each service with one click
• browse personal and public notes
• reply to twitter and pownce notes
• full browsing of tumblog, with rendering of audio, video, conversation, etc.

Download Posty.

A screenshot of the main interface.


A screenshot of the twitter interface.
To run Posty you need the Adobe Air installer.
For any comment, suggestion, curiosity or feedback: posty AT spreadingfunkyness.com.

Update: new version of posty here. 

Are you a microblogger? Wanna quickly post on your social places? Posty is for you! To update a social network, three steps are usually needed:

• Login
• Write message
• Click post

After a while, the update of your profile can get boring, because of repeated actions.With Posty you write a message once, choose the services to update, and click post. That’s all!

 

 

At the moment posty supports posting to Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce. Give it a try.Quick instructions. Posty is an Adobe air application. It runs on MacOsx and Windows (Xp/Vista). To run Posty you need to download Adobe Air installer.