More than a decade in the making, and two full years after version 0.9.9, Wine 1.0 has finally been released. Wine is the free Windows API emulation layer that allows various Windows software applications to run on the Linux operating system. For those not in the know, Wine is an acronym which stands for "Wine is not an emulator."
With the help of Wine, it is possible to run a number of Microsoft office applications on a Linux desktop. Many games such as World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike, Half-Life 2, and even applications such as Adobe Photoshop CS2 will run on Wine. You can check out the list of Wine-compatible applications here [1].
For more about Wine version 1.0:
- check out this ZDNet News blog [2]
Links:
[1] http://appdb.winehq.org/
[2] http://news.zdnet.com/2424-3515_22-207182.html