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Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux

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

DannyB writes:

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: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Friday April 12 2019, @08:48PM (4 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday April 12 2019, @08:48PM (#828737)

    but it is pointless and basically wrong to blame others for the choices that they make.

    When those others are the Debian Governance Council or whatever it's called and they make the decision via a vote that looks about as believable as the foreign dictators who win 95% of the vote after killing their competitors, and their decision locks systemd into about a third of all Linux distros...yes, yes I can blame them.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday April 13 2019, @06:56AM (3 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 13 2019, @06:56AM (#828898) Journal
    But we have already done that several times in threads where we are discussing systemd. This story is about Microsoft, Edge and Linux - it has nothing at all to do with systemd. You are off-topic.

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 15 2019, @02:56PM (2 children)

      by tangomargarine (667) on Monday April 15 2019, @02:56PM (#829851)

      You are off-topic.

      Says the guy who keeps responding to every comment here ripping you about systemd.

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      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 15 2019, @03:42PM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday April 15 2019, @03:42PM (#829884) Homepage Journal

        They call it the Barbra Effect. Because of the Spy Photo of Barbra Streisand's house. She didn't want the photo to get out, she sued. And it got out even more because of the Lawsuit. Sad!

      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday April 15 2019, @05:03PM

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 15 2019, @05:03PM (#829931) Journal
        I am/was trying to explain the editorial policy. I obviously failed.