From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 02:02:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9ABD16A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:02:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.198.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEABE43D48 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:02:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.218] (c-24-1-232-64.hsd1.tx.comcast.net[24.1.232.64]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20050915020158014008eenee>; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:01:58 +0000 Message-ID: <4328D614.2080207@computer.org> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:01:56 -0500 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050908) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith References: <200509142330.10546.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <200509142355.26230.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <20050914163237.GA88210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050914163237.GA88210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: matt.kosht@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:02:08 -0000 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