IE in FreeBSD?

P.U.Kruppa root at pukruppa.de
Thu Sep 15 21:27:34 PDT 2005


On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>
> My opinion on WINE is that it merely harms people who are writing
> software
> for FreeBSD.  If I write a wordprocessor for Linux or FreeBSD and try to
> sell it, why would a customer buy it when he can just use his Microsoft
> Word under Wine?
Don't forget Wine, Qemu, etc. are pieces of software themselves, 
written by great programmers and hackers for Linux and FreeBSD. 
They weren't discouraged from anything: They do contribute 
to the open source community.

Regards,

Uli.

>
> As a result the existence of these programs discourages interest in
> native
> FreeBSD programs, and encourages people not to wholeheartedly switch
> over to FreeBSD.  It also gives an excuse to software developers not to
> bother
> writing software for open source development since "they can always run
> it on wine"
>
> Ted
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Garrett Cooper
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:40 PM
>> To: FreeBSD Questions
>> Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>
>>> I run it in a window under the remote desktop port.  Of course you
>>> need a
>>> real
>>> windows box somewhere...
>>>
>>> Ted
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Yuan Jue
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:30 AM
>>>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>>> Subject: IE in FreeBSD?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello, all
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody successfully  run Internet Explorer under Wine in
>>>> FreeBSD? What
>>>> should I do to get it run? Any suggestion will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best Regards.
>>>>
>>>> Yuan Jue
>>
>>     It's possible under wine, but very difficult to configure and
>> install. Search google for Wine IE, or the gentoo linux forums
>> (forums.gentoo.org) for IE.
>> -Garrett
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