Compatibility lists for most programs can be found on the AppDB. Most of these are available to download via the (usually) included script, winetricks. With some programs, official Windows DLL files are required. Compatibility may not be perfect however, and there can be various glitches introduced.īinaries (via repositories) for Linux distributions Wine can also run any Windows program, including emulators. Wine is especially useful for older Windows games, as compatibility with these is typically higher than if the same game were run on modern Windows versions.
It can run older Windows only games and Windows only emulators. Originally created by Alexandre Julliard, it is now sponsored by corporate entity CodeWeavers, who use it as a base to create an enhanced, proprietary version, known as CrossOver. Linux, Mac OS X) to run programs originally created for Microsoft Windows. As Wine is open source software, you may extend it to suit your own needs.
Wine allows Linux users to keep the stability, and flexibility of a UNIX based system, and still run many of the Windows applications that many computer users have come to depend upon. Wine Wine (known recursively as Wine Is Not an Emulator) is an open-source compatibility layer for Unix-like systems (e.g. Wine is free like many Linux distributions, as volunteers write some of its source code.
