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09.01.2006 05:39 PM PT | Matt Hartley | Comment | Send to Friends | Discuss

Internet Explore for Linux? OK, so this is an interesting idea of sorts. But in the end, why do I want this?

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been the dominant Web browser (almost) since the birth of the Web. It runs on Microsoft’s Windows and on Apple̵7;s Mac, but it has never been officially supported on Linux. A nascent open source effort called IEs 4 Linux is trying to change that. This week, the group released its latest version of IEs 4 Linux 2.01, which is more stable than its predecessors and fixes some bugs. IEs 4 Linux creator Sérgio Lopes explained to internetnews.com that the project originally kicked off in May of 2005, motivated by a discussion within the Brazilian Web Design community on how to be a good Web designer while running Linux. 220;Before that, I had all three IE versions running on my Linux but never published a How To explaining the install process because I never thought it was so useful,221; Lopes said. “Testing sites on Internet Explorer is essential for Web designers. So I released a small bash script to automate Internet Explorer installation and called it IEs4Linux. Since that, IEs4Linux use has grown exponentially.” The latest IEs 4 Linux features a simplified installation process for IE 6, 5.5 and 5. IEs 4 Linux also runs in 29 different languages. The process for getting IEs 4 Linux to run on Linux is relatively straightforward. The user needs to be running Wine (Wine Is Not a [CPU] Emulator, using R20;Microsoft-free̶1; code)̷0;. Source: InternetNews.com

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