Wine is a program that enables users to run Windows programs on non-Windows operating systems, including Linux, and Mac OSX. Why would you want to install it on XP? On 6/21/08 wine-users-request at winehq.org wrote:> Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:03:58 -0500 > From: "jsmith" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> > Subject: [Wine] wine only installed on linux? > To: wine-users at winehq.org > Message-ID: <1214060638.m2f.8323 at forum.winehq.org> > > Can wine only be installed on a linux platform or is there a way to download it and run it on windows xp? >
Michael Reich wrote:> > On 6/21/08 wine-users-request at winehq.org wrote: >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:03:58 -0500 >> From: "jsmith" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> >> Subject: [Wine] wine only installed on linux? >> To: wine-users at winehq.org >> Message-ID: <1214060638.m2f.8323 at forum.winehq.org> >> >> Can wine only be installed on a linux platform or is there a way to >> download it and run it on windows xp? >> > Wine is a program that enables users to run Windows programs on > non-Windows operating systems, including Linux, and Mac OSX. Why > would you want to install it on XP? >Because Wine does a better job of emulating Windows 2000/Windows NT/Windows 98SE than Windows XP does. That is just one reason. James McKenzie