Hands On: How to Get More From Linux Oct 8, 2008, 17 :31 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3254 reads) (Other stories by Barry Shilliday)
"If you are confused as to what Wine is, it’s really quite simple. When a Windows executable normally runs, much of the code involves making calls to the Windows operating system in order to perform various tasks.
"Wine creates a translation layer between Linux and the Windows executable; in other words, these operating system calls are translated on the fly into equivalent calls on Linux and the graphical desktop it is running."
