![]() I seem to have had either really good luck lately, or wine has REALLY progressed because about 75% of the downloads I’ve been steered to that were Windows applications have just worked (nine out of ten), or just needed a dll download (1 out of 10.) For example, currently I run the following Windows applications using the main “stock” release of Wine: Finale Allegro, Free Monitor for Google, PaRaMeter, Adwords editor, Rosetta Stone (I forget the version – it was a demo cd), Good Keywords, Before You Know it 3.5 lite, irfanview 3.7, languages of the world, xenu, itunes, tvants, quicktime player. These days I find that the stock release of Wine has matured enough that most things I need to use just work. I used Codeweavers Crossover Wine for my old version of Microsoft Office, “just in case” but as OpenOffice has matured I haven’t made use of that in ages. I ran all my games through Winex – LucasArts titles and Age of Empires mostly. In the early years of my linux use I stuck with Crossover and Cedaga (Cedega – I always mispell it.) At that time it was known as winex. I have used all three implementations of wine and each has it’s strengths. The nature of some of their work with copy protection has required that to remain closed source (as I understand.) ![]() ![]() One of the biggest complaints is that they do not support the main open source Wine development as much as they could. Transgaming has geared their version of Wine more towards gaming and making things such as 3d acceleration (directx compatibility) and copy protection work to support popular gaming titles. Transgaming Cedega (and Cider) Cedega is the name of their roll up of Wine for Linux and Cider is their version for Apple. In addition to that Codweavers has a nice installer that makes installing Windows applications easier as well. In many ways this is a win-win situation for all involved. One of the great things about Codeweavers is that they support development of the official branch of wine and also provide support to end users for the applications they say works with their release. Wine – this is THE official site of the Wine project.Ĭodweavers Crossover Office – Codeweavers sells a supported version of Wine and have a set list of supported applications. The major implementations of wine are as follows: WINE is a popular way to run some Windows applications on a Linux based system. (I’ve seen Wine implementations for Mac OS X as well.) Wine is a Windows compatibility layer for Linux and many other compatible operating systems such as the BSD based operating systems.
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