Why?

If you emulate Solaris for Intel, what's the point. There isn't much software for 
Solaris on Intel that isn't available for Linux already. If you emulate Solaris for 
SPARC you have soo much overhead translating the CPU instructions that it would be too 
slow to be really useful.

On the other hand, Solaris has (or will have in the next version, I can't remember) a 
Linux compatibility layer built in.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:42:11 +0800
Subject: RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer

I am surprised someone hasn't written a solaris emulator.. then we could run
it and any other apps that we want..

and since solaris is alot more like linux then linux is like windows, the
performance hit wouldn't be so bad...

still, I am happy with Mozilla.. so who cares really?


rgds

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Sherman
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2001 12:40 AM
To: Mandrake-newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer


On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 13:25, E Estes wrote:
> I have seen screen shots of people running this  on linux and was
wondering where I could  find it. Any and all help would be appreciated.

You will need to use either Win4Lin or VMWare to run Windows under
Linux, in order to use MSIE. MS will not release a Linux-native version
of IE, because we are their greatest threat to Windows, and they refuse
to compromise their OS monopoly.

They have a Solaris-native version of IE, but AFAIK it does not run on
Linux, and since there is no source available, you can't just recompile.

Davee0D
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