Some days, you really need to run a Windows-only program, even if you're a die-hard Linux user -- like yours truly. For those times, I often turn to Wine (formerly an acronym for "Wine Is Not an ...

No matter how easy Linux distributions make it for newcomers to install and use a free, open-source operating system, nearly everyone has at least one program that only works in Windows. Wine, a free ...

The open source Wine project—sometimes stylized WINE, for Wine Is Not an Emulator—has become an important tool for companies and individuals who want to make Windows apps and games run on operating ...

Wine 11 brings near-native performance to Windows games on Linux. Thanks to NTSYNC, performance bottlenecks are a thing of the past. Wine 11 is now available in most distro default repositories. I ...

One of the most commonly cited causes for the dual-boot syndrome is the lack of availability of <insert-key-software-here> for the Linux OS. Open source developers have been hard at work bringing ...

While Mozilla’s Firefox 3 is aiming for a Guinness record for the most downloads in one day there’s another new important software release which may be breaking records: Wine version 1.0 has hit the ...

Linux was a new potential market and Corel invested heavily in Wine which gave it major traction as well as greater visibility and credibility. This was a huge boost for Wine. It wasn’t so great, it ...

I've been on a bit of a kick lately, trying to run Windows apps on Linux through novel solutions like WinApps and WinBoat. These tools rely on virtualization and FreeRDP to bring full Windows apps to ...