Internet Explorer for Linux

It seems to be difficult to get away from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The situation's improving, but there are still web pages that don't work with alternative browsers like Firefox. Most can be ignored, the site's are rubbish, or I can access them at work where I still have access to IE. Unfortunately, GBU's own remote desktop requires you connect using Internet Explorer. Waiting until I'm next in the office to use the remote desktop kind of defeats the purpose of it being remote.

There are a number of options: dual-boot, and having a virtual PC being the obvious two. My home computer does have both SuSE Linux and Windows 98 (!) installed, but I'm too lazy to reboot out of Linux and into Windows. Having a virtual Windows box seemed like a perfect solution, but my computer's a little underpowered and changed from slow to grinding with Windows running inside Linux.

Sérgio Lopes comes to the rescue with IEs4Linux. In essence: download, run an installer, run another installer, and you've got a working copy of Internet Explorer available in Linux. Okay, I had to fiddle with file permissions and run the second installer again, but that doesn't sound so good.