Wine – Wine is not an emulator – it is a Windows compatibility layer

Wine is essentially a Windows compatibility layer for Linux, allowing Linux users to run Windows applications in a much more direct manner than full operating system virtualisation. More information about Wine is to come shortly.

If you wish, you can visit the official Wine website to get more details about this excellent free piece of software and download instructions.

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  1. February 5th, 2010