They had a version for Unix. It probably ran on Linux through a compatibility layer but it was not designed for any Linux distro. And that was a long time ago

They had a version for Unix. It probably ran on Linux through a compatibility layer but it was not designed for any Linux distro. And that was a long time ago when they were competing with Netscape. It was easy for them to do that because the original IE was mostly a branded version of Spyglass's Mosaic which was designed from the beginning to run on Unix and Windows. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.