Ich bin ein ÜberGeek

[mbarrick]

OK, only Kim will really appreciate this, but the image below is of Lotus Notes 6.5.1 running on Linux (Gnome, Redhat) with Internet Explorer 6.0sp1 embedded as an OLE object. This is, according to docs from Redhat, Lotus, IBM and Codeweavers (the people who make CrossOffice), not possible.

Comments

[yummymommy.livejournal.com]

holy christ, I read this entry three times and I'm even more confused :/
*going back to my happy place*
;P

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

good good ..you earned your daily geek points

[replicant6.livejournal.com]

have you guys heard about the WINE project? It's about getting Windows apps to run on Unix/Linux. And now they're talking about porting it to OS X... hmmm...


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[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Yup. CrossOffice is basically and extension to WINE. The outfit that writes is http://www.codeweavers.com is a major contributor to the WINE code.