what is wine

[Eberhard Roloff]

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 at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:stude.list at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 31/01/2008, gagan sharma <ginnytinnyster at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ginnytinnyster at gmail.com>> 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