Wine for Windows?!
Writing about web page http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=112520
Probably nothing new to a lot of people, but I just spotted that the wine website has binary downloads for Windows.
Admittedly I can think of a couple of uses for this, but that doesn't really take away from the initial "wtf?" I got when I found out.
I wonder if it runs cygwin... :-)
(For anyone wondering what I'm blathering about, wine is a compatibility layer used for running Windows programs on Unix - or in this case, running Windows programs on Windows)
02 Jul 2008 15:09
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Tags: Cygwin Unix Windows Wine Wtf
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Mathew Mannion
Really? Other than running Worms in a window?
02 Jul 2008, 15:33
That was pretty much what I had in mind :-)
There are probably a few old programs that work in wine, but not Vista/XP too.
Maybe checking your windows program for wine compatibility…
02 Jul 2008, 15:48
Andrew Ingram
Madness!
03 Jul 2008, 07:54
Nick Howes
Apparently you can use it to run Windows NT programs that wouldn’t otherwise work. So there you go.
07 Jan 2009, 14:21
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