[Dclug] new to list, new to linux - Problem Installing Ubantu

[Miguel González Castaños]

Zachariah Mully escribió:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 17:48 +0100, Miguel González Castaños wrote: 
>   
>> I think using parallel VM for browsing sites that FF cannot see it is as
>> We say in Spanish shooting flies using a canon...
>>
>> There is a project called ie for linux or ie4l for short, it is a debian
>> package and installs you a gygwin version of IE ready to be launched for
>> this...
>>     
>
> Not if you have to use IE7, or do any testing (which is what we use VMs
> for) of IE/Outlook/Office etc. As much as they'd like to tout it as way
> to test sites on IE natively in Linux, I'd still be very hesitant to
> trust it accurately representing the site. 
>   
Ok, anyway, it uses the original IE, so It should be representing the 
site in the same way as It would do under Windows. If you wan to use it 
for exploring other software, that´s another matter. I still think that 
QEmu or VMware could work for that purpose

Miguel