jump through the windows with FREE Wine
0 Comments Published by chopey on Monday, March 12, 2007 at 7:10 PM.
Wine does not always come in glasses and bottles. Wine also comes in other forms, like emulators. Wine maybe hated and even forbidden to Maldivians but in case of Linux, wine sure is the answer to a lot of people. Answer in the sense to questions like can Linux run MS Office, and other applications like games. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. The purpose is to run Windows programs (apps) on Linux and alike. But I guess it might not be very right to say wine is an emulator. Wine is more a re-implementation of the Win32 API, kind of like allowing applications to run as if on the native OS.
The project has been around for many years, and it has gained a very good progress too. Its worth looking into Wine, if you are looking to run some windows applications on Linux. I had the need to run MS Project and wine was the answer. At times when you work in an office environemnt you are left with no choice but to stick with some applications for various reasons like compatibility between the coworkers. At these kinds of situation wine really comes in handy. Wine also is good when you want to run some games on Linux. But I personally feel if you are a game guy, you should be on windows or have dual boot.
As for the applications that run over wine, there is a lot. Here is a list of applications from wineHQ.
If you are looking for more compatibility with applications at a commercial level, CrossOver will be a good choice to look into. Its the commercial version of wine. The list of application is bigger and its easy to manage the applications as well. Its got support for applications like IE 7, MS Office 2003, Outlook 2003, iTunes and even Photoshop CS2.
Now I know, there might be some people who might ask, "Can wine or crossover run Vista". daaa! you never know. :) For those there is answers too, maybe not with Wine though. Anyway thats a different topic.
The project has been around for many years, and it has gained a very good progress too. Its worth looking into Wine, if you are looking to run some windows applications on Linux. I had the need to run MS Project and wine was the answer. At times when you work in an office environemnt you are left with no choice but to stick with some applications for various reasons like compatibility between the coworkers. At these kinds of situation wine really comes in handy. Wine also is good when you want to run some games on Linux. But I personally feel if you are a game guy, you should be on windows or have dual boot.
As for the applications that run over wine, there is a lot. Here is a list of applications from wineHQ.
If you are looking for more compatibility with applications at a commercial level, CrossOver will be a good choice to look into. Its the commercial version of wine. The list of application is bigger and its easy to manage the applications as well. Its got support for applications like IE 7, MS Office 2003, Outlook 2003, iTunes and even Photoshop CS2.
Now I know, there might be some people who might ask, "Can wine or crossover run Vista". daaa! you never know. :) For those there is answers too, maybe not with Wine though. Anyway thats a different topic.
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