[nmglug] web development on Linux?

[Mindshare Studios]

Thanks to everyone for their comments.

Damian

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Galassi [mailto:mark at galassi.org] 
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [nmglug] web development on Linux?


    Anthony> If you want to actually test your pages in real IE
    Anthony> without rebooting all the time, there's the
    Anthony> Free-as-in-beer VMWare Server, onto which you can install
    Anthony> a licensed copy of Windows and boot it up when its
    Anthony> needed.

IE usually works fine under wine, so you can test that way.  I have
seen it work very smoothly.

[...]

    Anthony> Probably fairly low; I've never had much success with
    Anthony> Wine, especially for something as complex as Adobe CS. As
    Anthony> mentioned above, there -is- the VMWare option, but it's
    Anthony> not quite so convenient.

There is an art to getting things work with wine -- I don't use
Windows so I have trouble with it, but the wine HQ pages list many
things (including photoshop) that work quite well.