Adobe Reader 8.1.1 for Linux and Solaris released

Question

Linux
* 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent
* Red Hat Linux WS 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 and Ubuntu 6.10. For a list of customer-reported working systems see here
* GNOME or KDE desktop environment
* 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
* Up to 125 MB of available hard-disk space
* GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or higher
* Firefox 1.5 or higher; Mozilla 1.73 or higher
Solaris
* UltraSPARC or UltraSPARC IIIi processor
* Solaris 9 or 10
* GNOME or KDE desktop environment (GNOME only for Solaris 10)
* 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
* Up to 175 MB of available hard-disk space
* Firefox 1.5 or higher; Mozilla 1.73 or higher

Answer 1

Here is the list of changes and bugs I found in AR8.1.1 and ways to fix them (bugs of course :-) ):
(this is how I fixed these bugs, you may find better ways to fix them)
The most important fix since AR 7.0.9 is that now AR8 works with new Linux
distributions which use recent GTK 2.0 libraries. It is known fact that when
recent GTK 2.0 library was present loading of AR 7.0.9 failed with endless
loop of messages: "expr: syntax error" on console window and serious CPU
usage hit silently slowing down computer reactions. Now this is fixed.
New feature added: Now AR8 scans font pathes inside X config files and adds
found fonts to its own internal font cache so system wide fonts are used for
pdf pages rendering in addition to default built-in AR8 package fonts. If
user will copy font files from Windows/fonts directory to X font locations
the pdf files outlook in AR8 is identical to the one on Windows.
When someone uses tar.bz2 or tar.gz installer it will ask for installation
directory and will show default [ /opt] directory. Do not press enter here!
If you do this a ?[3~ junk directory will be created in current directory. To
overcome this manually type /opt or other location.
Another bug is blank grey window on first run of AR8. Just close it with X and
provide path to libgtkembedmoz folder. This library is a part of mozilla web
browser so it can be found in any mozilla program directory:
/usr/lib/firefox
/usr/lib/seamonkey
/usr/lib/thunderbird
/usr/lib/mozilla
or other locations where mozilla software is installed.
Just run AR8, go to Edit->Preferences->Categories->Internet->Select Browser,
and fill in libgtkembedmoz Folder path with one of these locations or find
correct one for your system.
The last bug is AR8 only creates desktop icons on root account.
AR8 can be run without icon. Just run /usr/bin/acroread