At 19:22 14/9/2005 -0700, Garret Cooper wrote:
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.
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
I don't think you mean "Mozilla friendly", I think you mean "according to
accepted standards." I would be suspicious of anyone selling software who
was too unaware of web standards to follow standards in their web site
(well, I would except someone who used tables rather than CSS to lay out a
page -- I can forgive that). Frankly, there are so many web sites offering
information I need that I don't really have time to worry about those sites
that require IE. I'm already suffering overload.
--
Roger
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