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This is so sick and wrong.

All good. :D though i dont know why you would want to use windows programs on linux when if you look there are so many alternatives out there!

Wine has been around for some years, I wouldn't exactly call this news.

cake and wine....never thought about that one.

This is super old news. Wine has been used for several years now to run winbloz programs on linux.

http://desktoplinux.com/files/misc/wine.jpg < Visual Basic allows developers to create.... what?!

Haven't used wine in years. If it can run AutoCAD, ArcGIS and Autodesk Map3D in a work environment then I'll be impressed.
I'd even consider running linux full time at home again. I know my boss wouldn't let me at work though.
Didn't RTFA either. I wonder if theres anything new in it or some kid just found out about wine today.

I have tried to make the switch so many times, but I can't get 3ds Max, Photoshop CS2 and Flash 8 working with Wine, so I end up going back to Windows. Everything Linux or Unix has to offer is great for me except for the fact that I don't want to learn Blender nor do I like Gimp that enough to drop Photoshop. so I am just waiting for wine to reach 1.0 and hopefully will be able to run the only apps that tie me to Windows!

Is it usable yet? I remember trying to play Civ III using Wine and it was damn close to unplayable. Turns took FOREVER because of the slow game play. The fact that it ran at all was a miracle. Most programs I've tried with Wine just fail to start for one reason or another.

wine is getting better.
I can run Football Manager 2007 on it! YAY!
As mentioned , there are many great apps written for linux so most of the time I tend not to bother.

Totally cross platform is the way forward or is it web 2.0? Either way things are good for linux.

This also works under Mac OS X too.

Or you can run complete Windows or any other OS on Linux using KVM.

http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki

I just want to play games, games, games..... I dont care about Windows Applications that aren't games.

I got sick of Wine and the various issues that come with it. I just run a lite verson of Windows in a VM, so much easier.

How did this make the top of digg ?
its just an article saying how great wine is on some guys setup , i suspect my care gland died as i clicked on it.

As a noob to linux (Ubuntu 5.10, *I know, I am due for an upgrade*) I am all down for WINE.
Bury me or digg me down if you will, but I was deceived into believing that I would actually find out how to install and use wine... All I got was lame spam for buying CrossOver Linux.

BTW its great knowing that I can run all those apps, but HOW!?!

Moving on.

"I run such common Windows programs as Word XP, Internet Explorer 6, and iTunes 5 on my SUSE Linux system every day"

Why?

sudo apt-get install wine

I don't like Wine...I prefer Beer. It won't help you run Windows apps on Linux, but it will make you not care so much about your Windows issues ;-)

/ducks

wine seems to work well, but the interface of cedega seems easier. I think if wine had a better interface, for instance, select .exe and install to dir, put shortcut on desktop, like a windows installer it would be alot better

Wow, it's a good thing someone wrote a segment on how to use Wine to run Windows apps in Linux. I don't know how I got along before this genius came along...I've never seen ANYTHING like this in all my years of googling....

Next up from this author: A new game...called Basketball.

WINE isn't going to make anyone switch to Linux. Its unreliable, unstable, and slow. I enjoy things just working, and for 90% of my programs that I require, WINE just isn't going to cut it and hasn't for years. People are gonna go with what works and makes their lives easier, Linux for the most part, especially for designers doesn't make life easier because the tools we need (Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, etc) run like crap and are prone to loss of data under WINE.

Wake me when all us amd64 users are able to apt-get wine.

Phillip.

My cake requires DirectX 9.

I have yet to use Linux, but ever since hearing about Vista, I've been wanting to try it. I had issues installing Ubuntu, but hopefully can give Ubuntu, WINE, and Beryl a try very soon. Thank you open-source!

cool just what i needed I've been thinking about switching for a while but i need to run windows apps and I'm a total noob so was afraid of wine

Old as hell, the wine project has been famous before Digg even existed.

Wine is good, not perfect, but constantly improving. I look forward to the day when we're no longer bound to one OS or another for specific applications.

On another note, there's currently a work in progress called ReactOS. I haven't looked into it for a while, but from what I gather, it's an open-source, built from the ground up, reproduction of the Windows API. Something like this has a lot of potential, since it would be very easy to end up with an OS X-like OS where the back-end could be *nix based, while the front-end could be capable of running Windows applications natively (I think anyway...I'm no OS programmer).

It's in early alpha right now, but I would imagine that once this is more complete, it could potentially be tapped into for Linux and OS X systems to run Windows applications natively.

Are you *****' serious? March 2007, and there's a Wine tutorial on the first page of Digg? My grandfather died in 1958 (when my own father was only 10) and he knows what Wine is and how to use it. C'mon people, stop digging this crap. Buried in a heartbeat.

What? I can run windows programs in Linux, that's amazing!!

It's not Linux, it's GNU/Linux