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Linux.com: Wine Doors Opens Windows Under Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 13, 2006

“When I first used Wine to try to install Windows software on my
Linux machine, I found it less than user-friendly. Fortunately
there was an application called WineTools to help smooth out the
process. WineTools helps you download essential Windows add-ons
like DLLs and Internet Explorer–a necessity for most users, since
a great many third-party Windows apps rely on IE’s low-level system
integrating to implement essential services. But WineTools has not
aged well, and using it increasingly causes problems for other Wine
applications. Luckily a new project called Wine Doors is picking up
where WineTools left off.

“Like WineTools, Wine Doors is designed to user-friendlify your
Wine installation–setting up phony Windows drives, adding Windows
applications, and so on…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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