Wine (Wine is not an emulator)
Wine is open
source software that allows Microsoft Windows applications to be
run on x86 processor-based Unix-like systems, including
Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
Wine does not act as a true emulator (the acronym
itself stands for "Wine is not an emulator") but as a program layer that translates Windows
application program interface (API)
requests into equivalent POSIX code that Linux and other Unix-based
operating systems use. Although commercial Windows emulators are available for Unix systems, these
programs require users to have full Windows licenses and the operating system fully installed. Wine
enables the user to run Windows applications without actually purchasing a Windows operating system
end user license agreement (EULA).
The Wine developers say it is "not yet suitable for general use," but they also say that it will
successfully run most popular Windows applications such as Word, Access, and Quicken.
This was last updated in February 2006
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