Comments on: How do you develop on a minority OS?

By: vmware management

vmware management — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:58:03 +0000

Peterix, thank you for posting those links. As a developer I have been wanting to standardize my use of IE to make things quicker and easier, but while on Linux it has been very difficult. I appreciate the time you put into commenting. And John thank you for posting about this topic, I’m sure there are many people out there like ourselves who have been searching for this solution.

By: emichan

emichan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:31:49 +0000

I deal with this issue nearly daily. I use wine (i.e. ies4linux) to test earlier versions of IE. I use a virtual image of windows (I installed an old copy of XP and run it via qemu-kvm and it is very fast) to test IE7 (which won’t run on wine yet). Unfortunately, I haven’t yet found a good way to test in safari.

By: G. Barr

G. Barr — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:29:56 +0000

Hi,
I’ll need to check out ies4linux as well. I installed a Linux server for a mate, while he uses IE on his PC he often has to use Firefox on the Linux, now he may have a choice of standardization.

thanks

By: admin

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:32:08 +0000

Peterix – thanks for those links! I had wanted to avoid the VM solution if possible, but I’ve never come across ies4linux before. I’ll try them out – thanks!

By: Peterix

Peterix — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:23:43 +0000

And here’s something that should help you install it on your distro:
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-internet-explorer-on-ubuntu8.04

By: Peterix

Peterix — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:13:42 +0000

I think you’re looking for this:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Beta

Another option is to install windows in a VM (like Virtualbox or VMware) – and then use some similar solution for windows.