CHAPTER 28 Running Microsoft Office Under SUSE Linux
The title of this chapter might sound somewhat strange. How can a Windows program be run under Linux? The answer comes courtesy of the Wine project and the set of add-on programs it offers for Linux. Wine is an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator, which is a way of saying that the Wine software doesn't emulate Windows but instead re-creates certain parts of Windows known as the application programming interface (API).
In theory, the vast majority of Windows program can be run using Wine. The reality is that some work easily, some require a little configuration to run, and others don't work at all.
Getting a Windows program to run under Wine is rarely difficult, but essentially it's a "hack"—a ...
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