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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. ie for sparc by unixbob · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Presumably you are running FreeBSD on an x86 box. How good will your binary compatibility be with IE for Solaris when you can only get it for sparc?

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