What's WINE?

[GUILTIE]

I saw something on Digg about Wine RC5 being released and from what I could gather from the FAQ it seems to be a program that runs windows apps on other OS's? It was pretty unclear so I figured here would be the perfect place to ask! What's Wine? (http://www.winehq.org

(and btw I don't mean the drink :rolleyes: )

[GGJstudios]

Google, Google, Google.
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Emulators/Wine-148.shtml

[flopticalcube]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)
Wine is a software application (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_application) which aims to allow Unix-like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like) computer operating systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system) on the x86 architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_architecture) to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows). Wine also provides a software library (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_library) known as Winelib which developers can compile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler) Windows applications against to help port (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting) them to Unix-like systems.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29#cite_note-0)
The name 'Wine' derives from the recursive acronym (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym) Wine Is Not an Emulator. While the name sometimes appears in the forms "WINE" and "wine", the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form "Wine".[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29#cite_note-1)

[GUILTIE]

Does it work to run windows apps on OS X or just Linux? On their site it said it could but it wasn't on the downloads page.

[neonblue2]

Darwine

http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

[tsice19]

Does it work to run windows apps on OS X or just Linux? On their site it said it could but it wasn't on the downloads page.

Wine runs some Windows apps on Linux. For OS X, there is Darwine (which is just like wine, still free, but for Mac).

Unfortunately, both seem to be quite buggy and need lots of work to get apps working at slow speeds. Now, I'm sure there are some who can use them/configure them very well, but for the average user, it isn't at all practical.

I've never used it, but Crossover would probably be a better alternative. Or, Just use Bootcamp/VMWare.

[flopticalcube]

Wine runs some Windows apps on Linux. For OS X, there is Darwine (which is just like wine, still free, but for Mac).

Unfortunately, both seem to be quite buggy and need lots of work to get apps working at slow speeds. Now, I'm sure there are some who can use them/configure them very well, but for the average user, it isn't at all practical.

I've never used it, but Crossover would probably be a better alternative. Or, Just use Bootcamp/VMWare.

Crossover is WINE in a pretty wrapper.