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posted by chromas on Friday April 12 2019, @03:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the Microsoft-Loves-Linux dept.

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]


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Friday April 12 2019, @02:16PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 12 2019, @02:16PM (#828598) Journal

    I had written . . .

    "Not addressed was the question of whether systemd's boot loader would require Edge on Linux at boot time in order to perform updates."

    I thought of a better idea.

    Systemd boot loader could run a Windows VM with the Windows Edge browser to do system updates to the systemd bootloader, and then proceed with the normal boot process. That eliminates concerns that Linux Edge may have differences from Windows Edge.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @04:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @04:34PM (#828653)

    But the awesomeness of systemd is 1% faster boot times! running a windows VM in an x86 emulator is really gonna slowdown boot on my raspberryPI