Running Windows Programs on Ubuntu with Wine Wine Importer Shanna Korby, Fotolia
KNoW-HoW Wine Running Windows programs on Ubuntu with Wine Wine importer Shanna Korby, Fotolia Korby, Shanna Users who move from Windows to Ubuntu often miss some of their favorite programs and games. Wouldn’t it be practical to run Windows applications on the free Ubuntu operating system? Time for a little taste of Wine. BY TIM SCHÜRMANN any Ubuntu migrants miss to develop something similar for Linux. Box or VMware, Wine does not emulate games and graphics programs A short while later, the first version of a whole PC and thus cannot be consid- Msuch as CorelDRAW or prod- Wine was released. Today, more than ered a real emulator. This also explains ucts such as Adobe Photoshop. The only 300 volunteer programmers from all over the name Wine, which means Wine Is solution is to install Windows parallel to the world continue to contribute to the Not an Emulator. Ubuntu – or try Wine, which tricks ap- Wine project. Because of the way Wine works, it of- plications into believing they are run- fers a number of advantages. Chiefly, ning on a Windows system. What’s in a Name? you do not need an expensive Windows The history of Wine goes back to the To run Windows programs on Ubuntu, license. Programs will run almost as fast year 1993. At the time, Sun developed a Wine uses a fairly complex trick: It sits as on the Redmond operating system, small tool to run Windows applications between the Windows application and and windows behave as if they belong on its own Solaris operating system, Ubuntu like a simultaneous interpreter.
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