A Semi-Technical White Paper: An Introduction to Wine

Wine is a Windows compatibility technology that allows a wide variety of Windows software to run as-if-natively on Unix-based operating systems like Linux and Mac OS X. Using Wine offers the best of both worlds—being able to run the applications you want on the operating system you want. This paper discusses Wine as a technology. Wine is a technology developed under the auspices of The Wine Project, an open-source community of developers in much the same mold as the developer community that created the Linux operating system in the first place. The Wine Project’s goal is simple—to recreate the functionality of the Windows operating system and make it available on the other Unix-based operating systems. By doing so, operating systems like Linux and Mac OS X will become fully Windows-compatible platforms, allowing their users the freedom to run not only their respective native software offerings, but Windows applications as well. In the fifteen years since the project’s inception, Wine has made remarkable strides towards achieving this overall goal. [via]

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