[Novalug] Walmart again selling Linux PC - good or bad?

Michael Gurski novalug@gurski.org
Thu Nov 1 10:09:55 EDT 2007


Excerpts from Theodore Ruegsegger's message of Thu Nov 01 09:59:55 -0400 2007:
> Congratulations! Other than a few of my employer's applications that
> require it (or IE), I've been happily Free for years.

Have you checked out IEs4Linux yet?  I've found it invaluable for, at
the very least, testing new sites.  It installs & runs IE5/5.5/6 under
Wine.  When last I checked, IE7 was still being worked on.

I've also discovered that a LOT of sites that "only work with IEx"
work amazingly well in Konqueror if you tell it to lie in the
User-Agent string (after I give up trying to get Opera to work).  All
sorts of ASP.net "features" that seem broken in FF/O/K all amazingly
start working when the site thinks you're using IE but aren't.

> And in exactly 9
> months, I'll never need to touch it again, other than occasionally
> fumbling with friends' and relatives' machines to fix simple stuff.

Huzzah!

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