A Guide to Wine on Ubuntu for Beginners

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 28, 2010

[ Thanks to Chris7mas for this link.
]

“This guide is divided in four parts, so that you can
jump to whichever you want using the links below:

“What Is Wine?

“Installing Wine in Ubuntu (Two Methods)
Starting Up and Configuring Wine
Customizing Wine
What Is Wine?
Wine is a compatibility layer which allows Windows applications to
run on Linux by translating Windows system calls into native Linux
calls. Wine runs successfully a variety of Windows applications and
games on Linux – the official website offers an application
database which organizes those depending on how well they perform
under Wine, known issues and solutions, screenshots and helpful
comments.

“You should give Wine a try if you have some Windows-only game
or application that you really need and want to be able to use
Linux for it.”

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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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