What? Wine is not an emulator, it is an application layer. It does not translate CPU instructions, so it can't be used to run an x86 binary on an ARM processor. Either he's porting Wine to Android on the x86 platform, or the article is fake, or TNW simply saw a Wine developer develop something completely new and incorrectly deduced that it was a port of Wine.
On 5 February 2013 20:56, Sanga <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sent to you by Sanga via Google Reader: > > > Popular Windows app emulator Wine coming to > Android<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBoyGeniusReport/~3/ZLZ7yM6FvWc/> > via BGR <http://bgr.com> by Brad Reed on 2/4/13 > > [image: Wine Windows Emulator > Android]<http://bgr.com/2013/02/04/wine-windows-emulator-android-315869/>Great > news for anyone who wants to bring more PC capabilities to their Android > smartphone or tablet: *The Next Web* > reports<http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/02/03/wine-for-linux-is-going-mobile-you-will-soon-be-able-to-run-windows-apps-on-android/>that > popular Windows app > emulator<http://bgr.com/2011/01/26/exclusive-blackberry-playbook-and-smartphones-to-run-android-apps/>Wine > will soon be coming to Android. According to > *The Next Web*, chief Wine developer Alexandre Julliard has been working > on porting the emulator to Google's <http://bgr.com/tag/google> > (GOOG<http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=goog>) > open source mobile operating system and started showing off how Wine would > work on Android over the weekend in Belgium. Although *The Next Web* says > that the port probably won't be ready "for some time," this will definitely > be something to follow for Android fans who want to bring their favorite > PC apps over to their mobile > devices<http://bgr.com/2012/09/11/pc-sales-analysis-ios-android-cannibalizing-pc-industry/> > . > > > > Things you can do from here: > > - Subscribe to > BGR<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.boygeniusreport.com%2Ffeed%2F?source=email>using > *Google Reader* > - Get started using Google > Reader<http://www.google.com/reader/?source=email>to easily keep up with > *all your favorite sites* > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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