The best linux-and-'doze combination I've seen is dual-booting and using vmWare. I know it's not totally free, but they have a full trial version... There is some overhead to keeping the windows environment active in linux, but on a well-equipped system it wouldn't matter. Apps run at nearly full-speed and you can always boot directly into windows if something doesn't fully work -- it's safer to recover if you're using a bootable installed windows and not just a file-as-filesystem in linux.... Other than that, you could try wine, Lindows, etc
Ben, I was going to say no IE for solaris, but then I found: http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp Wow, that's scary. So you need IE to test pages? Another solution would be to run a VNC session for using IE! This is totally free (although microsoft wishes they could stop it -- they tried in some of XP's licensing iirc) and it works GREAT over a decent LAN. Have a dedicated winbloze box, running the latest up-to-date IE, and a VNC server (local access only). You can use an entire virtual desktop, or whatever setup you want -- I'd still recommend running your virus-scanner on that system though!! M$ == danger as we all know. Yes, please avoid Outlook and Outlook Express with extreme prejudice! When I was up at Eugene Spafford's security talk in Portland a while ago, he repeatedly reinforced (yes, again and again) that the *single* *best* thing any IT staff could do for their organization was to replace the use of Outlook (and Express). I hardly receive any viruses anyway, but Evolution makes me feel almost guilty about how easy full-featured email can be (the MUA that is). and finally. a response to another thread: I think you simply need to configure Opera and/or your system's registered MIME types, as you can have your PDF's open in xpdf or gv (which I prefer), or anything else. I think the latest mozilla has the flash player bundled, and I notice that the most-recent galeon install I have finally opens PDF's right in the browser window. Hooray! Ben, you might be happier with one of the latest linux releases... good luck : ) BenB On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 00:31, Neil Parker wrote: ... > There is no native Shockwave player for Linux, but the Windows Shockwave > player can be used in Linux via the Crossover plugin (a commercial product, > but you can get a free demo from http://www.codeweavers.com...it's > complicated to install, but it works if you follow the directions exactly). > For Flash, there is a Linux Flash player at > http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/. > > - Neil Parker, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- -- Ben Barrett
