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Microsoft Say Edge May Come to Linux "Eventually"
When Microsoft announced it was switching the foundations of its home-grown Edge browser to a Chromium base we asked if it might allow the app to come to Linux.
[...] Microsoft's Kyle Pflug responded to the tux question on Twitter. He said that a Linux build is something the Edge team would "like to do eventually" but they 'can't commit to Linux just yet'.
Not yet – it's something we'd like to do eventually (our build system runs on Linux) but we're taking things one step at a time starting from Win10, and can't commit to Linux just yet.
— Kyle Pflug (@kylealden) April 8, 2019[...] That said, the availability of Edge on Linux would help web developers working on Linux. They'd no longer need to keep a Windows VM within reach solely to double check changes.
[Editor's Comment: Irrelevant submitter's comment regarding systemd removed. --JR 120454 Apr]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 12 2019, @06:08AM (15 children)
I doubt that. Rather I see the Linux Foundation as a gigantic Trojan horse in the original sense of the word, and RedHat their team of assassins. They are trying to corrupt and zombify Linux. They can't beat Linux, so they're going to try and eat it alive.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @08:12AM
You can't extinguish until you embrace.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @09:11AM (1 child)
IBM hasn't updated AIX for power9 and been focusing on linux for quite some time so I highly doubt Red Hat will ever do anything to harm it.
Of course, IBM is still IBM and they do tend to fuck things up royally...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @05:57PM
What is it that the man has picked up? "The truth". That must be bad business for you. "Not at all, I am going to help him organize it"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @12:00PM (1 child)
Everything Red Hat makes is open source/free software and they fund development of hundreds of projects. IBM may ruin everything, but for now the so-called Trojan Horse is boosting wall strength, manufacturing weapons, recruiting troops, and otherwise doing more than any other company to strengthen the metaphorical Troy. I know it's popular to hate systemd, but if systemd itself is the Trojan Horse it seems odd that every giant tech company has been hoodwinked alongside Debian and Arch maintainers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @08:08PM
i have to agree. i don't use rhel/fedora currently but red hat is a good citizen from what i've seen.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Friday April 12 2019, @02:17PM (4 children)
Remember that Microsoft acquired The Linux Foundation in 2016.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 12 2019, @03:23PM (3 children)
Wait, what? How did I miss that? Jesus...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Friday April 12 2019, @06:18PM (2 children)
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/ [techcrunch.com]
https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13651940/microsoft-linux-foundation-membership [theverge.com]
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2016/11/17/microsoft-joins-linux-foundation/ [microsoft.com]
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by J053 on Friday April 12 2019, @10:23PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Saturday April 13 2019, @03:41PM
That is correct.
Joining is the PR term.
Acquiring is the reality.
They are indeed different. Thanks for reminding me.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @03:30PM (4 children)
If it weren't for redhat linux would be too hard for you to use.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 12 2019, @06:22PM
Funny you should say that, since I started with Linux in 2004. On Gentoo. To this day I refuse to touch RPM distros and run some combination of Artix, Gentoo, and Slackware, all systemd-free.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Friday April 12 2019, @06:30PM (2 children)
I find that quite hilarious.
Rewind to 1999. I'm a classic Mac software developer and Apple fanboy at this point in time. Have been writing code for two decades if you include college. Not just Mac code. PC code. Some 8086 assembler. Minicomputer code in college, including assembler. So I'm not exactly ignorant.
I've been reading books on Linux for about a year. I don't know anything about PC hardware and I'm not about to build one for my first Linux experience. (Although I did build my 2nd box.)
So I order a PC that comes with Red Hat installed.
Should be easy right?
I find the fvwm86 or whatever they called it desktop environment abysmally bad. (Remember Mac guy here deeply invested in creating software that 'ordinary people' can use.) The command line works as I expect and have studied. But I don't want to work only in the command line.
I ask a friend who recommends SuSE. So I get SuSE 5.1. Later 5.2. It's great. Desktop is still X, but quite usable. So is command line. And YaST was nice. Etc. Polished. But I switched to Ubuntu in 2006.
If it were for Red Hat I would have given up on Linux.
Once on SuSE, I had to set up bind, httpd, etc. (I previously had these on a Mac, on a static IP, back when I was among the first in the country to have cable modem. Running web, ftp and dns on a classic mac was unstable. To put it kindly.) Setting those up was about what I expected from all my prior reading.
This was in a day when the cable tv company had no clue that I ran a server or that it also was a router NAT'ing multiple other computers in my home. You couldn't buy these routers at Office Depot, etc. just yet.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday April 14 2019, @12:02AM (1 child)
I had a similar experience a few years after yours. Something I did broke my internet connection and even reinstalling couldn't get it back. I never did figure out what it was and had to go crawling back to M$ in frustration. :( Things are much better these days, thankfully.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @10:46AM
Yeah, but Microsoft fucked me in the ass, repeatedly, with Wordperfect. I will never forget, I will never forgive, and I say to you, "Run, do not look back, just run! Until you find another operating system. Any operating system, that is not Microsoft." Your planet will thank you!