MSIE on Linux

[Space-Cadet]

I want to try to get it running under Linux... I heard there was an article someplace, that told how to get the HP-UX/Solaris one running on Linux, can anyone link me :p?

[Kadesh]

I don't know about where the tutorial is but why do you want to run that thing? IE for Solaris sucks worse than Netscape 6.0 for Linux.

[mangeli]

I have had it up before with wine, but that required a win partition and it crashed rather quickly. If you can find the link I wuold love it....

[Dark Ninja]

I don't know of any article like that, so I'm not able to provide you the link. However, with the way Internet Explorer is designed alone would pretty much prevent any kind of use with Linux.

Although, IE in Linux would be nice. Netscape is the only complaint I have about Linux. IE has holes, yes, but it supports so much more than Netscape.


Dark Ninja
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[Space-Cadet]

Originally posted by Kadesh:
<STRONG>but why do you want to run that thing?</STRONG>

I just want to get it up and running, test it out, etc
I like to try everything I can :p

[ 02 May 2001: Message edited by: Space-Cadet ]

[killerasp]

DO you mix oil and water together?? I dont, do you?

[Yvraine]

Sodium and water is much more fun.

To get back on topic, have you tried Opera? Many people seem to like it better than Netscape/Mozilla.

[Space-Cadet]

I've tryed just about every browser there is.. Opera, Mozilla(which I use currently), BrowseX, Nutscrape, Amaya...

[tito]

Opera rules.I use it for win95 (with IE) and linux.I have also heard good things about konqueror but I dont know anything about that (anyone?).
I doubt you can get IE running on linux some way other than through WINE. I know theres a version of IE for the Mac and Solaris but im pretty sure there isnt one for linux.

[Space-Cadet]

Originally posted by tito:
<STRONG>I know theres a version of IE for the Mac and Solaris but im pretty sure there isnt one for linux.</STRONG>

Thats what I'm asking about; I know it is possible to get the Solaris one running on Linux, I just don't know where to go to find out how

[sans-hubris]

http://www.konqueror.org

Oh, wait you wanted MSIE? Sorry can't help you there. I haven't found too many things that Konqueror doesn't support. In fact, it's the only browser I've seen (Windows or Linux or any operating system for that matter) that has support for those cool icons up in the URL bar that some sites have (like this place, fire up LNO in Konqueror and you'll know what I mean). In many ways, I thinks it's better than MSIE.

[Chatterjee]

I think a good reason to try to get MSIE to work in Linux is for developers like me who are (unfortunately) tied to existing projects that use the ASP scripting language and for stuff to render properly on IE which is used by 80% of the world.

-S

[vvx]

Hmm, it seems that in order to run the IE for solaris on sparc you would have to emulate a sparc, think slower than vmware. It might be a few less hoops to get it to work on linux on sparc, but I still doubt it would work well at all. Honestly you'd have better luck just running IE for windows through wine or win4lin or whatever you want to try.

[miker]

konqueror is, overall, excellent.

BUT

seems to me that some java stuff can throw it (my online banking and nortel netid applets do not work with it, but they work with netscrape4.75, strangle they do not work still with the suposedley more 'compliant' Netscrape6

won't look at opera until it supports java

and some sites do just seem to want IE. so I fire it up occassionaly in VMware.

I don't think there's a hope of M$ releasing an IE for Linux. Konqueror comes very close, but still needs a few things sorted out I think.

[bdg1983]

Microsoft waited awhile to get into the browser race and I wouldn't be surprised if Bill has his staff secretly working on a Linux version of IE. Office or IE will most likely be the first to be released for the linux platform.

You may want to try www.winehq.com (http://www.winehq.com) to find any documentation on success stories with IE and Wine.