[CTS] Re: Ubuntu
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:44:59 -0500
Yep much the same as an emulator - I run CP/M, Apple, Tandy TRS-DOS and
other non-DOS/Windows apps with similar software in Windows. I found the
main page for Wine too - maybe the others coming into trying this want the
link
http://www.winehq.com/
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> Subject: [CTS] Re: Ubuntu
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>
> On Wednesday 06 July 2005 10:36 pm, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> > One question I haven't seen mentioned with this Linux distro -
> will it run
> > any windows native software or all Linux only?
>
> Linux doesn't run Windows binaries and you should never assume
> that it does --
> there is no such connection. Now, if that distro ships with Wine, that's
> something different. Wine runs on every distro, so you could say
> that "you
> can run windows apps on any windows distribution, provided that app is
> supported by Wine."
>
> John
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