Hello everybody,
I am confused that what is wine.Is it an windows emulator
or not.Because at different places on net their are different
opinion regarding that.
Again what wine stands for .Is it windows emulator or
something else.
Plz Help me.
regards,
Sumit kumar
--
" life of man is an arrow's flight,
out of darkness into light,
and out of light into darkness again,
some time pleasure,some time pain."
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Sumit Kumar wrote:> Hello everybody, > > I am confused that what is wine.Is it an windows emulator > or not.Because at different places on net their are different > opinion regarding that. > > Again what wine stands for .Is it windows emulator or > something else. > Plz Help me. > > > regards, > Sumit kumar >wine uhm, emulates, the windows operating system environment the statement 'wine is not an emulator' really indicates wine does not emulate a PC - that is, as little as possible is emulated, "just" the software, not the hardware -- this makes wine a more efficient solution to run windows executables then running a PC emulator and a windows copy in that; (also, the goal of wine is to have it run as much programs "out of the box" as possible - without having to copy over windows dll files) HTH, Joris
On 1/22/06, Sumit Kumar <sumit.pmb@gmail.com> wrote:> Hello everybody, > I am confused that what is wine.Is it an windows emulator > or not.Because at different places on net their are different > opinion regarding that. > > Again what wine stands for .Is it windows emulator or > something else. > Plz Help me. > > regards, > Sumit kumarIf you just want a simple answer: Wine will let you run _some_ windows programs on Linux. The degree of compatibility varies from program to program. What is it that you need to do? Dotan Cohen *& http://technology-sleuth.com/question/why_are_internet_greeting_cards_dangerous.html *(&
Hi,
Look at the first paragraph at the page:
http://www.winehq.org
and you will read "Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows
API on top of X and Unix."
That means, wine implements some Windows DLL's in order to Windows
programs run on top of it.
And also WINE stands for "(W)ine (I)s (N)ot an (E)mulator". It is
really great!!
Regards.
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You probably get more confused when people tell you that wine is an implementation of the Windows API, but if you don't know what API means, this definition doesn't help much. API (Application Programming Interface), is the interface that a computer system or application provides in order to allow requests for service to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them. That's what Wine is trying to do, make the applications "think" they are running on Windows because all the dlls needed and services are provided by Wine. Also, if you are a programmer, you could compile your programm using wine libraries and make it run easier on Wine. Wine is not an emulator. Andr? Carvalho. Sumit Kumar wrote:> Hello everybody, > > I am confused that what is wine.Is it an windows emulator > or not.Because at different places on net their are different > opinion regarding that. > > Again what wine stands for .Is it windows emulator or > something else. > Plz Help me. > > > regards, > Sumit kumar > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > " life of man is an arrow's flight, > out of darkness into light, > and out of light into darkness again, > some time pleasure,some time pain." > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >wine-users mailing list >wine-users@winehq.org >http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > >