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WINE is basically a windows emulator for Linux operating systems. WINE allows you to run some applications on Linux that does not have Linux support or installers ie: Office 2007, World of Warcraft and many others. This is not a how-to but more a idea of what is going around and what its all about. WINE is the underlying technology for all the above applications.

But lets face it, this was made so we could run the nice Microsoft games on our Linux distros. I for one love to game and I really would like to have more games written for Microsoft and Linux. I can't figure out what the big deal is as most games are written in C++ and could be compiled for any OS type.

Games is a major stumbling block when it comes to people moving from Microsoft to Linux and most don't have the knowledge or time to sit and try figure out how to play there favorite games on Linux. Here comes the solutions. Some are free and others not but lets take a look at them a little more.

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Comments (10)

cgagnon ·
Just a nit pick...but what part of ... Wine Is Not an Emulator .... does this person not get.
chalbersma ·
But it acts so much like one.
twickline Story submitter ·
Hello,

basically?

Cheers, Tom
gus3 ·
No, not even basically, if the notion is disowned outright from the very beginning.

WINE emulates nothing. It re-implements the various Windows API's on non-Windows, but still x86, platforms.
dinotrac ·
So, gus -- how, exactly, is that not an emulator?
gus3 ·
An emulator reproduces programmatic behavior all the way down to the hardware. For example, Bochs emulates an x86-based PC even when it's running on Power or Sparc. A keystroke results in a pretend INT 1 in Bochs, even if the event was reported from a remote X11 server.

Wine does no such thing. It pretends to be Windows, not an entire PC. When a Windows program runs under Wine, it has its own process space, and the program code runs directly on the x86 CPU, no emulation required.
dinotrac ·
gus3 -

Twist yourself around all you want. The only test that matters is the duck test. If it quacks like duck and walks like a duck, then it is a duck.

From the standpoint of a WIndows application, wine attempts to act like Windows. Quack, waddle and all that. It's not a perfect duck, but a duck it is.

And an emulator, too.

PS: Nobody said that wine is a PC emulator, just a Windows emulator.
Bob_Robertson ·
The original name was WINdows Emulator, WINE.

But then they realized that Microsoft could use their legal team against them, so they changed it to "Not and Emulator" to avoid those kinds of problems.
dinotrac ·
Thanks, Mr. Bob.

Always good to have another coot on hand.

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