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Running Solaris IE Binaries in FreeBSD?

Posted by Cliff on from the executable-compatability dept.

Hugh asks: "I work for a company that requires all its employees to use Internet Explorer, but they have no problem with "alternative" operating systems. As such, I would like to run FreeBSD but because there is no BSD IE binary, I would need to run the Solaris binary. BSD has a great Solaris compatibility layer, but I have not had any success getting it to work with IE. I was wondering if anyone else had any input on the topic?"

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  1. Re:ie for sparc by XoXus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, I'd doubt very much whether you'll get this to work at all, if you are running on an x86 box.

    I think your only option would be to run it via a forwarded X11 connection to a Solaris box.

    Ahhhh.... bring on Transmeta's Crusoe!

  2. Re:Hello ! I work for a clueless company. by squeegee-me · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At my past job, they also enforced the "IE is corperate standard" polocy. They however did allow employies to use other browsers if they wanted, but they would get no support from the help desk. It was a stratigy to lower opperating costs, or so they said. Ironicaly, you were not suppose to download/install any software without IT's approval, so you were SOL unless you had the power to say "I need this for this reason."

    Also, more recently, I have run into a few things at my current job that have IE requiored, due to features built in to it. These are mainly features with Java and Orical DB stuff. Opera and Netscape would not run the Java we have in place at the time of implementaion.

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