IE in FreeBSD?

[Eric Schuele]

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


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Regards,
Eric