Running IE6 on Linux
October 17th, 2007
I had to run an IE only app in office today but didnt wanted to boot into Windows!
Two reasons for that
- I hate Windows
- I have forgotten my login password from past 3 weeks
:D
Ask google on what can be done for the situation & it’ll redirect you to a script called ies4linux. This is one helluva job! It downloads all the required components and installs them too. Only prerequisites to run it are cabextract and wine. Check out this nice tutorial. IE6 was up and running on my Ubuntu box in less than 2 minutes (I am sitting on a fat pipe )
MTNL’s customer care website is known for its ugliness… this is how it rendered on my FF 2.0.0.6 and the IE6 running on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon RC
Firefox 2.0.0.6
IE6 on Ubuntu
Wine has considerably improved over the time. Just last weekend I was trying to install the UT3 Demo Win32 version on my Ubuntu box (after successfully installing DirectX 9) but couldn’t go through as I ran out of disk space. I am all praise for Wine atm!
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