Re: what is wine

gagan sharma wrote:
Which softwares i can install by wine,and how to install wine it self

On Jan 31, 2008 6:13 PM, Andy <stude.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:stude.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

On 31/01/2008, gagan sharma <ginnytinnyster@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ginnytinnyster@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Hi,Plz tell me what is wine and how to use it.

> Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API
> on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.
> From: http://www.winehq.org/

Basically it allows you to run (some) applications designed for
Windows under Linux.

There is a page describing it on help.ubuntu.com
<http://help.ubuntu.com> ,
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

Hope that helps.

Andy


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Also VERY worthwhile to look at in regard to all things related to wine
(at least if Linux/wine is your concern ;-)) ).
http://frankscorner.org/

rgds
Eberhard



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