Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:22:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <6B61D7B4-F0DA-4ACD-80CC-03F30B26704C@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4328D614.2080207@computer.org> References: <200509142330.10546.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <a87eda320509140846723c85ad@mail.gmail.com> <200509142355.26230.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <20050914163237.GA88210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4328D614.2080207@computer.org>
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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.
>
>
>> Roland
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Eric
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
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