Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:01:56 -0500 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: matt.kosht@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4328D614.2080207@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050914163237.GA88210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200509142330.10546.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <a87eda320509140846723c85ad@mail.gmail.com> <200509142355.26230.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <20050914163237.GA88210@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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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
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