Run Window apps on Linux? It just takes a drop of mature wine

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 18, 2008 11:33 PM EDT
iTWire; By David M Williams
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Wine is well-known on Linux forums. Many a new Linux user has sought to run their old Windows applications on their new operating system. Short of having a clear open source alternative that reads and writes to the same file formats â?? for instance, Open Office is a viable solution to opening archived Microsoft Word documents â?? the venerable Wine is regularly touted as the first option. Wine, simply put, facilitates running Microsoft Windows applications within Linux. The programs will display in their own windows just as if they were native Linux applications.

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