Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:22:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <6B61D7B4-F0DA-4ACD-80CC-03F30B26704C@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4328D614.2080207@computer.org> References: <200509142330.10546.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <a87eda320509140846723c85ad@mail.gmail.com> <200509142355.26230.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <20050914163237.GA88210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4328D614.2080207@computer.org>
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On Sep 14, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Eric Schuele wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:55:25PM +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 14 September 2005 23:46, Matt Kosht wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>> Does anybody successfully run Internet Explorer under Wine in >>>>> FreeBSD? >>>>> What should I do to get it run? Any suggestion will be >>>>> appreciated. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I would suggest instead of Wine using an RDP client (rdesktop in >>>> ports >>>> for example) and run IE via terminal services on a Windows >>>> server or >>>> XP desktop PC. >>>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> It is a way to solve this problem. But my particular problem is I >>> do not have a Windows server or XP desktop PC around. My laptop >>> is the only computer I have. So is there any other suggestion? >>> >> You mean apart from dumping IE and using firefox? ;-) >> Install windoze on a virtual machine on your FreeBSD laptop. You >> could >> use bochs or qemu. The latter is probably faster. >> > > I'll second the qemu vote. It works very well. > > You don't mention *why* you need IE. Stating why might help > someone provide a better alternative. > > >> Roland >> > > > -- > Regards, > Eric The reason why I can see using IE is the ridiculous requirement made by many software vendors and website designers that custom tailor their content to use either ActiveX (Valve's CS and CS:S for example) or certain features only available in IE, or they are just plain lazy and don't want to make their content Mozilla friendly. -Garrett
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