On Saturday 11 February 2006 18:30, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
Now this may seem a bit far fetched but how about QEMU + KQEMU ( qemu's accelerator module ) running Windows?
But wouldn't that require me to get (legal) windows CDs and install on top of the emulator or something? I was looking for either a completely FOSS solution or something that doesn't require me to look at windoze at all.
Why dont you try ReactOS? It's similar to windoze. It is still only at v0.2.9 but it has a lot of compatibility with Windows XP. Not sure if the dialer will work with it but no harm trying, right? And the ISO is just a few MBs ( 10-20MB I think ).
Also, you could try distros like Mandrake, Ubuntu, SuSE which are the more userfriendly ones. They have Wine installed and fine tuned. So the dialer might just work out of the box in those distros. You could try installing them in Qemu.
I had forgotten to mention this earlier but PCQuest had carried an article about getting IE6 ( or was it 5.5 ) working with WINE. If you are sucessfull in getting IE working with WINE then you can use MTNL's web dialer that you mentioned.
Least they could do is open up the specifications so that we could atleast write one for ourselves.
Why dont you write to them regarding this? I am sure specs arent IP, are they? It might just help them get a more usable dialer at $0 :)