First Look: We Go Hands on With Microsoft Edge for Linux

When Microsoft announced plans to rebase its Edge browser on Chromium the chance of a dedicated Linux build went from pipe-dream to inevitability.

Chromium’s cross-platform codebase makes it the ideal foundation on which to build out a modern web browser. Three years since rumours first began swirling, Microsoft Edge for Linux is not only confirmed but it’s almost ready for testing.

Being the impatient sort we installed the Microsoft Edge Developer build on Ubuntu 20.10. This post will stop short of being a “review” per se (you’ll hear throughout this post: this is not a stable build) but I’ve included lots of screenshots and some general thoughts about how well the browser integrates with the default Ubuntu desktops.

Microsoft Edge for Linux Developer Build

Microsoft Edge Dev for Linux
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PXE Booting with WDS for UEFI and BIOS Devices

A lot of what I’m going to go through in this post I learned from this YouTube video from BranchCache Bob, here’s the video. There are some differences, which I’ll point out below.  

The Problem

You have multiple VLANs, and have a mixture of devices with BIOS and UEFI and need to boot them from the network using PXE from a WDS server.

Prerequisites

  • A Windows Deployment Server.
  • A Microsoft DHCP server (does not have to be running on the same server as WDS).
  • Have the DHCP server’s IP as a helper address on your network switch for each VLAN you want to boot.
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