Wine itself means "Wine Is Not an Emulator"... just like GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix". ;)
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Angel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't tell WINE is an emulator. But I understood, what Sameeul Bashir > wanted to know. > > WINE is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and > Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources > to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to > run on x86-based Unixes. WINE is free and open source. > > CEDEGA is not an Emulator also as well. Cedega (formerly known as WineX) is > TransGaming Technologies' proprietary fork of Wine (from when the license of > Wine wasn't the LGPL but the X11 license), which is designed specifically > for running games written for Microsoft Windows under Linux. As such, its > primary focus is implementing the DirectX API. > > WineX was renamed to Cedega on the release of version 4.0 on June 22, 2004. > > Though Cedega is mainly proprietary software, Transgaming does make part of > the source publicly available via CVS, under a mix of licenses. > > > > > 2008/5/21 Masum Masum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> WINE Is Not an EMulator >> >> -- >> ubuntu-bd mailing list >> ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd >> > > > > -- > Angel > GPG key: 0xC4639705 > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AshiqurRahman > > -- > ubuntu-bd mailing list > ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > > -- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ] -- ubuntu-bd mailing list ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
