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what is wine

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Hi I am a new Ubuntu user and my friend says that I should get wine but I don't Know what it is

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Best Luky Winarto (luckyborneo) said : 		#1

Hello wrestler,

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

More information about it and how to install it on your Ubuntu, please refer to this web site:
http://www.winehq.org/

-Lucky-

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Bnakai067 (the-fake-one-person-mafia) said : 		#2

wine is an emulator of windows
it allows you to use windows aplications

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wrestler (killacalitupac) said : 		#3

thanks that really helps me out