So it’s coming down the pipeline at work that we may be doing some Flex… And of course I know Flexbuilder is built on Eclipse… and Eclipse is cross platform so there must be Linux support! Well, sorta. Seems there is a “Flex Builder Linux alpha 2″. So is that Flex 2? Or 3? I know Linux is a smaller OS segment than the ‘big guys’ but it will be nice when one day software ships on all 3 platforms at the same time.
What’s funny is there are a lot of posts in the Linux Flex forum asking for Adobe to just release a Linux version without the design view. I haven’t played with it yet - but if it’s anything like the Dreamweaver ‘design view’ I could probably live without it too 
With that minor rant aside, I’m curious if anyone runs the Linux alpha? How stable is it? Or can you run Flexbuilder within a VM? That kind of sucks but if I have to go that route I will…
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Hi Jim,
I have run flexbuilder in a virtual machine and found it sucks, I hate having to boot up a virtualmachine so I can code in Flex or test and air application, and find I never end up using it because of this.
I downloaded the flexbuilder 2 and ran this see guide here (http://nzflew.blogspot.com/search/label/flex). I found it reasonably stable,
unfortunately it is only a trial version and has since expired, I am not sure if I can buy a key for it any longer anyway now that they have moved to Flex 3.
I agree I would never use the design view unless beginning or learning flex, so come on Adobe give us Flex without the design view.
The Labs page refers to it as “based on several features from Flex Builder 3″. You can configure it to run Flex SDK 2.01HF3, Flex SDK 3, or the current build sync’d from svn at opensource.adobe.com. I’ve been using it for months on Ubuntu 7.10 and RHEL5 both natively and in VMWare.