# Microsoft Releases Chromium-Based Edge Preview For Linux

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/microsoft-releases-chromium-based-edge-preview-for-linux/159713>\
**Category:** News & Articles\
**Tags:** operating-system, windows, browsers\
**Created:** [October 21, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsoft-releases-chromium-based-edge-preview-for-linux/159713 "2020-10-21T12:28:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Astrid](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/astrid/32/174869_2.png) [@Astrid](https://onehack.st/u/Astrid)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsoft-releases-chromium-based-edge-preview-for-linux/159713/1 "2020-10-21T12:28:10Z")

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![](https://www.bleepstatic.com/content/hl-images/2020/10/20/microsoft-edge-linux.jpg)

Last month, Microsoft officials said they’d [release a preview](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/09/22/1924237/microsoft-is-bringing-edge-to-linux) of the new Chromium-based Edge browser for Linux some time in October. On October 20, Microsoft made good on the promise, [making available the Edge Dev Channel build for Linux](https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-chromium-based-edge-preview-for-linux/). ZDNet reports:

_The new release supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE Linux distributions. Microsoft is planning to release weekly builds, like it does with the Dev Channel builds for other platforms. To get started, users can download and install a .deb or .rpm package directly from the [Edge Insider site](https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/), which will configure a system to get future automatic updates. Or users can install Edge from [Microsoft’s Linux Software Repository](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/linux-package-repository-for-microsoft-software). More detailed instructions are available on [Microsoft’s Chredge-on-Linux blog post](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/10/20/microsoft-edge-dev-linux/)._

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**Author:** ![Rajan](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/rajan/32/81377_2.png) [@Rajan](https://onehack.st/u/Rajan)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsoft-releases-chromium-based-edge-preview-for-linux/159713/2 "2020-10-22T12:08:05Z")

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and always It is proprietary.  
You should write, not to recommed closed source software, instead seek for opensource . 😉