Wine is a alchoholic liquid refreshment that is normally used at dinner time with meals. Be carefull it causing a major headache! No no - Wine is a software application which aims to allow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> computer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a> on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_architecture" title="X86 architecture">x86 architecture</a> to execute programs that were originally written for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>. Wine also provides a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_library" title="Software library">software library</a> known as Winelib which developers can <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler" title="Compiler">compile</a> Windows applications against in order to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting" title="Porting">port</a> them to Unix-like systems.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29#_note-0" title="">[1]</a> Now in windows you have things like directx (this is similar) people also understand it better when told it is like an emulator (it mimics and fools) windows application to run inside linux. a typical example is running microsoft word inside linux using this application. A good website to read up and see what works and what is in progress to working is found at: <a href="http://www.winehq.org/">http://www.winehq.org/</a> and more informaiton here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29</a> thanks <div>On 31/01/2008, gagan sharma <<a href="mailto:ginnytinnyster@gmail.com">ginnytinnyster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi,Plz tell me what is wine and how to use it. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>