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. > > > > -- Sent from my HP Pre3 > > ------------------------------ > On Jan 15, 2014 10:56, Graham Allan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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/ -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez