From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 17 01:48:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7560A16A406 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:48:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2B113C46B for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:48:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from insp.local (jn@c-76-23-109-98.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [76.23.109.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l1H1mqlB078368; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:48:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, racerx@makeworld.com Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:48:38 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1d3ed48c0702161615m6b2dec1aha6c95c1f22c88aa1@mail.gmail.com> <45D64D22.3090400@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <45D64D22.3090400@makeworld.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702162048.39128.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Kevin Downey Subject: Re: Internet Explorer on 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: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:48:53 -0000 On Friday 16 February 2007 19:32, Chris wrote: > Kevin Downey wrote: > > I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the > > page in IE. > > A website I use for work uses ActiveX. > > I hate dual booting. > > What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? > > Four ways - in order of ease to hardness > > 1. Separate box that IS Windows. > 2. Dual Boot > 3. VMWare (or some equivalent) > 4. Wine (Goooood Luck) For current versions of Wine and FreeBSD this definitely won't work (I've tried). If you go back a few versions of one or the other or both there used to be a combination where wine's memory allocation wasn't hosed up under FreeBSD (I think). I don't understand enough about the current problem to say more than that, but there's a fair amount of discussion about it in various places. If you do get a happily functioning wine, there's a nice shell script (requires bash) package that will automatically fetch the IE binaries and dependent packages and set everything up for you. I can't remember what it's called offhand, though. JN