You might well ask why – well, I design websites for a living, and unfortunately the majority of the world is uninformed and still use the inferior and buggy browser M$ Internet Explorer, on top of the expensive and buggy operating system M$ Windoze.

Often when I design, I get it looking right in firefox, then take a peek in IE to look how bad it can get. On a regular basis, I find that IE decides that it can’t understand the ’standard’ code, and it just does whatever it wants to.

With this in mind, I set about installing IE6 on my linux ubuntu desktop.

I already had wine installed, and I found an excellent little script called ies4linux which I downloaded, ran and it all worked! It seemed to easy to be true, but it works!

There is an excellent tutorial on Ubuntu Geek which I found helpful and would recommend.

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