Wine and iexplore.exe
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 20 00:34:04 UTC 2010
On 9/19/10 5:18 PM, JD wrote:
>
> On 09/19/2010 03:53 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>> On 9/18/10 5:54 PM, JD wrote:
>>> On 09/18/2010 05:48 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>>>> On 9/16/10 7:57 PM, JD wrote:
>>>>> executed the command
>>>>> wine "/sdb3/home/jd/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet
>>>>> Explorer/iexplore.exe"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> You know, there is a mailing list and forums for Wine. You might be
>>>> better off asking questions about this program there.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, this is a known issue with eaWine's Iexplore which is a link to the
>>>> GECKO Mozilla engine.
>>>>
>>>> James McKenzie
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yeah.. I decided to dump it. I uninstalled everything "wine".
>>> Not worth all the jumping through hoops to make it work right.
>> There is this saying, if you want to run Windows, then run Windows.
>> VBox and VirtualBox do a good job. However, we are here to support
>> Linux, and if we don't report problems with Linux programs, they don't
>> get fixed...
>>
>> (I know that I'm basically preaching to the choir here, but some folks
>> figure that problems will be fixed by magic.)
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
> That's not the issue with me.
> If there is something I really need and find problems,
> I do indeed submit bugs.
> I have so many bugzilla accounts, that I have to keep
> my account passwords on an encrypted usb stick.
> Wine is just not something I really need. I was only
> curious and found it too unprepared for prime time.
>
JD:
Thank you for the honest opinion of Wine.
James Mckenzie
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