From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 19:40:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.keycomp.net (www.keycomp.net [207.44.1.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E3315425 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billieakay@yahoo.com) Received: from bopper (kc-rmt06.keycomp.net [207.44.1.8]) by www.keycomp.net (8.8.5/SCO5) with SMTP id WAA12310; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:46:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00a901bef8d9$24614a20$01010101@bopper> From: "Bill A. K." To: "Michael W. Akers" , "Chris" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <01BEF7D9.5559E070@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com> Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:31:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Thanks for your support :) Please visit my web site that I just put up for this purpose. The URL is: http://iefreebsd.freeservers.com My dedicated email address for this is iefreebsd@hotmail.com This page was just put up tonight, so it's not finished. Please come back and sign the Guestbook/Petition when it's up. If anybody has any ideas about how to run this thing, they would be very much appreciated. Thanks and please tell your friends to visit my page. :) Bill billieakay@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael W. Akers To: 'Bill A. K.' Cc: 'FreeBSD' Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 11:00 PM Subject: RE: IE for FreeBSD > Bill, > I am willing to get behind this and push. > If they want names, do give them mine. > > Michael W. Akers > M. Akers Enterprises > Unix/NT Systems Administration and Systems Integration > > ---------- > From: Bill A. K. [SMTP:billieakay@yahoo.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 6:07 PM > To: Chris; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD > > Hi, > Here's a copy of the message that I send to Microsoft under product > suggestions: > > ------Begin copy------ > > Hello, > > I am a user of a BSD UNIX operating system called FreeBSD. > (Information on FreeBSD is available at www.freebsd.org) > > I and some other of my fellow FreeBSD users would like to see a version > of Microsoft Internet Explorer (4.0 or greater) for our OS. > > A thing to note is that FreeBSD has support to execute Linux binaries. > > Currently, the only decent modern browser for our system is Netscape > Communicator which to some of us is a second choice for a browser even when > we are running Windows. > > Unlike some UNIX system users, I respect Microsoft and I am very much > impressed to see that IE had been ported to UNIX (A competing platform) in > the first place. > > I would appreciate some feedback on my request. > > Thanks > > Bill > billieakay@yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message