the corner office

This is the coolest discovery I've made this weekend: IEs4Linux is a tool which downloads and installs Internet Explorers 5, 5.5 and 6 on Linux. It sets up separate .wine directories for each install, so you can run 'em at the same time without the usual Windows world hassles, and the installs don't mess with your normal Wine setup. It also installs Flash 8 and can grab a few others things as well. The wine directories, the downloaded installers (about 250 megs, from evolt.org) and everything are in one directory, so it's easy to shuffle everything around. Wicked.

Two other howtos I found while looking around:

• Gentoo Wiki: How to install IE 6 SP 1

• A HOWTO at the Gentoo forums. There seem to be a few ways of doing it, depending on the version of Wine installed.

Needless to say, after finding ies4linux, I didn't bother with the tutorials themselves.