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Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?



On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
Does anyone tried a new version of citrix (not the one from pkgsrc) client in NetBSD?

The so-called "Citrix Receiver" ? I've tried it using both Wine and Linux emulation. The Linux version was a huge pain. It segfaulted, whined about SSL / x509 certificates (so tired of seeing this lately in apps), and had the usual way-too-many-dependencies on a zillion worthless GUI libraries and abstraction layers. Honestly, the Wine version looked like it was going to work up until the last moment when ... it didn't. With Windows apps you can't do much but just shrug when they fail.

It seems like the previous ICA client didn't have nearly as much kruft and actually worked. I know I've used it at some point on NetBSD. Of course, that version is probably no longer around. It's too bad, though. IIRC, you could often use older clients with newer Citrix servers.

-Swift


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