Add/Remove Applications - Wine

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Jul 20 02:30:06 UTC 2008


Matt Ford wrote:

> Wine is listed in the Add/Remove Applications program as "Wine Windows
> Emulator" but I thought "Wine Is Not an Emulator" (WINE)?

That's just what the acronym means, it doesn't mean that's what Wine IS.  Of
course it's an emulator.  I've been all over those arguments a million
times, and it's still intended to run Windows programs in a Linux
environment - exactly the sort of thing emulators do.
-- 
derek





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