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Linux® Desktop Garage
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Linux® Desktop Garage

by Susan Matteson
February 2005
Beginner
384 pages
9h 8m
English
Pearson
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Wine

Program Info
Terminal Commandwine [program or .exe name]
ProgramURL http://www.winehq.org

Wine is not an emulator! Wine is not an emulator! Say it again with me—okay, don't. We can stop now. They are pretty adamant about that whole “not an emulator” thing over at the Wine camp. I imagine a scenario like you would find in Orwell's 1984. I say in a hushed whisper, “Wine is an emulator.” Then there is a knock at the door. The men come to take me away to Room 101.

Wine is a compatibility layer between Linux and Windows. You don't need a copy of Microsoft Windows to run a program through Wine. Wine creates an alternative application program interface (API) that runs on top of Linux and uses no Windows code. Windows programs can run with this alternative ...

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