total_noob, on Aug 6 2004, 12:39 AM, said:
you can download wine or winex (windows emulators) and run some programs if you didnt know about it
emulator? as long as I know it's not a emulator..
They just wrote the whole windows API's for linux.. so it's some kind of a layer..
but not an emulator afaik..
It's pretty cool I am able to run winrar in Linux now.. tried winamp also but it crashed here before it showed up.. don't care though.. was just for testing.. and btw I even extracted some files made on a windows box by winrar also and extracted it on winrar on wine.. and it did it perfectly.. pretty cool app.. Recommendation!
from the homepage
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Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
Merry Christmas :)
Serhat