From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 02:21:24 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 72BBF16A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:21:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F057443D45 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:21:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.07) with ESMTP id j8F2LNoa020959 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:21:23 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.4.11] (shiina.dyn.cs.washington.edu [128.208.4.11]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.07) with ESMTP id j8F2LMnQ016179 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:21:23 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) In-Reply-To: <4328D614.2080207@computer.org> References: <200509142330.10546.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <200509142355.26230.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <20050914163237.GA88210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4328D614.2080207@computer.org> Message-Id: <6B61D7B4-F0DA-4ACD-80CC-03F30B26704C@u.washington.edu> From: Garrett Cooper Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:22:21 -0700 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='HTML_70_90 0.1, __CT 0, __CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART_ALT 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __KNOWN_SPAMMER_ADDRESS_2 0, __MIME_HTML 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __TAG_EXISTS_HTML 0' Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 02:21:24 -0000 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