I'm a horrible programmer. But I assume that compiling a Linux build for the latest alpha would only be as difficult as modifying a few OS-level calls to match the platform and to compile on a Linux-based machine, or on a linux-based partition on a machine.

I'm going to assume that ZC makes more OS-level calls than Internet Explorer. That's the only reasonable explanation as to why we haven't had a new Linux build in about 20 years.