I love [vi][1]. I've been doing Flex development on Linux for about three years - mostly with vi. But to be honest when building complex applications it is nice to have things like code hinting and integrated debugging. I'm sure you \*could\* make vi do that with Flex but I am not brave enough to attempt to figure that out. So I'm extremely excited that Adobe is releasing a version of Flex Builder for Linux! You can download Flex Builder for Linux from the [labs.adobe.com][2] site right now! Having Flex Builder for Linux really empowers us Linux geeks to easily build Rich Internet Applications. Flex 2 & Flex 3 applications can run in the browser via Flash Player 9 which has been available for Linux for more than a year. To run Flex applications as Desktop applications we need the Adobe Integrated Runtime, AIR. Adobe AIR isn't yet available for Linux. But I've been having pretty good success testing / debugging Flex based AIR applications on Linux over the past few weeks since I discovered that [you can use Wine and adl.exe to run AIR applications on Linux][3]. This is great news for developers - especially developers that use Linux! But do I miss vi? I really do. I really wish there were vi key bindings in Eclipse (and there probably is but I haven't found a project that does that yet). Go give the new Flex Builder for Linux a try and let us know how it goes! Please file bugs and feature requests on [the public Flex bug database][4]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi [2]: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/ [3]: /wordpress/2007/09/13/testing-air-applications-on-linux/ [4]: http://bugs.adobe.com/flex