I have heard of Wine, think thats the way I will go. Several folks at various client sites are using it primarily to run Lotus Notes as there is no Linux/Unix version yet. Thanks for the suggestions!
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 06:39 pm, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Robert Porter wrote: > > That was my final solution as well, thanks for the reply, you mentioned > > IE in your reply, I had heard there was a version that would work on > > Linux is this so and if so where does one obtain it? Since IE currently > > holds the lions share of the browser market I should be checking my web > > pages in it as well. And if I can avoid having to fire up my Win2K box > > just to check a web page that would be wunnerful! > > There are several ways to run Windows programs within Linux; if all you > need is IE and Office tools, try "Crossover Office" which is a modified > form of WINE. See http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/ > > Other products are Win4Lin and VMWare, which allow you to run entire > Windows sessions within your Linux OS, and support many other Windows apps > besides IE and Office. > > The above are all commercial, closed-source, non-free software. If you're > interested in running Windows programs under Linux for free, try Wine : > http://www.winehq.com/ . You may or may not get IE to work...it's not > easy. > > --Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html -- Cheers, Robert Porter http://www.rp2c.com RP2C Inc robertporterATrp2cDOTcom _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
