With the release of AIR 1.0 for Mac and Windows, Adobe is now focused on getting AIR 1.0 out for Linux. Currently, they are at the alpha stage and are taking applications for “Pre-Beta Testers”. Here’s a video of Kevin Lynch (Adobe’s Chief Technical Officer) demoing Parleys.com AIR app in Ubuntu (about 1:15 in) at Engage 2008:

Hopefully Adobe will consider me worthy of being a “pre-beta tester” and I can blog some more about the hard details in the near future.