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The Complete Guide to Wine

Wine LogoWine is a Windows compatibility layer that allows Windows applications to run unmodified on Unix and Linux based operating systems. It does this not by emulating Windows, but by providing a replacement Windows NT Kernel and DLLs. Wine is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator.

Wine is not a perfect replacement for Windows, owing to the difficult task of replicating a large number of undocumented systems within Windows. It can however be used to run a of Windows applications and games.

This guide provides a number of tutorials that show you how to run Windows-only applications under Linux using Wine.

 

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