going M$ free

Ariel Gold arielqgold at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 09:25:17 MST 2010


I also run virtualbox for IE testing. I run tinyxp, which runs blazing fast
(not that i've done any benchmarking...)


2010/9/13 Roderick Ford <r.ford at cox.net>

> I keep a WinXP box running in a vm on my Fedora 7 (yes, due to be
> upgraded), then anytime I need windows I can just use KRDC to show the
> desktop and test all the browsers there.
>
> Roderick Ford
>
>
> ---- keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> =============
>
>
> I'm really getting tired of these windows problems.  2 viri [spell] in less
> than a year.  In about 2000 I went M$ free for about 8 months.  I tried it
> again in 2007 for a month or two.
>
> The main issue I have is I am a LAMP dev and find it awkward to run IE in
> wine.  I need IE to test how things look and work in IE.  The other issue I
> had is I really like PSpad.  It is my favorite editor.
>
> I spend so much time in Linux anymore it almost makes sense to go M$ free.
>
> How do you check how sites resulve in IE if you run only linux?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> ------------------------
>
> Keith Smith
>
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