Tony S. Sykes wrote: >Codeweavers crossover office 1.1 is what you need. www.codeweavers.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Udo Rader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:38 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [expert] IE & wine > > >hi list, > >for various reasons I need (please note: "need", not "want" ...) to have >a running IE5.x (or IE6.x) running on my lm 8.2 box. > >lacking a windows license it is no option for me to use vmware/win4lin, >so I decided to give wine a try ... > >has anybody got any experience with wine under LM8.2 in general (I >installed the snapshot from the club-members downloads-page) and with >installing & running IE on it? > >any suggestions are welcome! > >thanks > >udo > Well, crossover office _might_ work but no guarantees. Office and IE cdo not use standard Windows Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of which there are about 60,000. Microsoft used their special knowledge of the system to make their applications more competitive by talking directly to the windows kernel(s). The result is that security on Windows systems goes from fair (at least on NT-based systems like NT4 W2K and XP) to abysmal when you start using M$ apps, cause those apps provide superhighways into the kernel in privileged mode.
Anyway, codeweavers did a great job on Office, but there may well be no way at this time to run IE on a linux system. Opera can claim to be IE and often that is good enough. Civileme
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