On 15 January 2014 12:47, Paul Robert Marino <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> FYI they also did the same thin with Shockwave Flash player for Linux too.
> Apparently Adobe doesn't care about the linux user market share any more.
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> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
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> On Jan 15, 2014 10:56, Graham Allan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On 1/15/2014 4:20 AM, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> >
> > Adobe discontinued the Adobe Reader 9 for Linux in June 2013 and has not
> > fixed and will not fix any further security issues in it. Therefore it
> > makes totally sense to remove it from their repo.
>
> I'm not disagreeing with you but it's still a breathtakingly crappy way
> of handling it. Acroread for linux is still available as a regular web
> download, so it's not remotely obvious that it's desupported unless you
> follow the news independently. For example it might have been worth a
> final mention on Adobe's "acrobat for unix" blog
> http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/ rather than leaving that abandoned
> since 2010!
>
> Graham
>

You can find Adobe Reader version 9.5.5 at [0]

[0] ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/

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Kind Regards
Earl Ramirez