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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo in the workplace
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:19:01
Message-Id: 200706141111.28316.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo in the workplace by Alexander Skwar
1 On Thursday 14 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2 > Ken <ken69267@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > IE will never work in wine.
4 >
5 > That's total crap. Every version of IE (even IE 7 to some extent)
6 > works with wine. ies4linux is a fine example, showing that you're
7 > totally wrong.
8
9 Agreed. It's more correct to say that projects like ies4linux and
10 winetricks will get IE working correctly, but to do it they heavily
11 rely on native windows dlls. This is fine for the user to get stuff
12 working, but the wine devs would rather folk didn't, as the wine code
13 then doesn't get used/tested/fixed.
14
15 alan
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17
18 --
19 Optimists say the glass is half full,
20 Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
21 Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?
22
23 Alan McKinnon
24 alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
25 +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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