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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @02:10PM (3 children)
It is part of the perceived behaviour of SystemD to try to force programs to depend on it. There are a lot of programs that should not care what your init system is that now require SystemD services. Saying SystemD is going to require Edge is just hyperbolic turnabout. (Until it does require Edge)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by srobert on Friday April 12 2019, @02:50PM (2 children)
"There are a lot of programs that should not care what your init system is that now require SystemD services."
Is that still true? I'm on a Gentoo laptop right now using OpenRC. I have a couple of other laptops running Void Linux (Runit init system), and FreeBSD. They all have Firefox and Chromium on them as well as working desktop environments, XFCE, Cinnamon, etc. What programs still have systemd dependencies?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @04:55PM
That's a good question, so I thought Id try to answer it, but packages.gentoo.org doesn't have a "depends-on" search. And I was surprised to find this in gnome-shell ebuild:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/gnome-base/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-3.24.3.ebuild [gentoo.org]
So it would appear even gnome can be installed without systemd .. though the use flag comes with some warnings:
https://www.gentoo.org/support/use-flags/ [gentoo.org]
So no simple list of what needs systemd still ...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Monday April 15 2019, @09:44AM
mx linux pulls systemd and libsystemd even if it doesn't init the system with it. A good symptom of artificially pushed dependencies. You have to actively work to remove systemd deps, that's what gentoo void and others are doing. You know, a disinfestation.
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