Taste some “WINE”

March 1st, 2009 | Linux, Uncategorized

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Hmm … thinking what I am up to ? okay, I had the same confusion when I found news  ” Wine 1.4 released” etc on digg.com. After that confusion, I read ….. WINE is an opensource project for Linux operating systems, which will help you run Windows applications on your Linux computer. Awesome !!

I did install WINE on my Linuxed laptop, and tried to install Chrome on it. However, it did not work since the Google Chrome file for this was not available for download for some reason. It gave me a “404 not found” error. But, I can use notepad and few other applications on Linux now.

I do not know much about WINE at the moment. However, I will try to use it more in coming days, and let you all know my experience. If you need more info on WINE,  jump to following pages.

1.  Winehq.org
2. Wine, from “All About Linux
3. Wine, how to on Lifehacker.

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18 comments ↓

#1
amreekandesi on 03.02.09 at 6:04 am

This is an interesting find.

Went to the wine website and looks like this project started way back in 1993! Thats a long time coming…

Will try it out. Sounds like a useful tool.

#2
Rekha on 03.02.09 at 10:04 am

Hahahaha….I jumped in to see what the wine is :D

nalla name!

#3
xylene on 03.02.09 at 10:34 am

I thought you had some wine :)
Chrome does not work on linux?

#4
dinu on 03.02.09 at 3:24 pm

yes, :) I have a lot to learn about this … will try to bring you more ..

#5
dinu on 03.02.09 at 3:25 pm

hmm ….. so, you were looking for the real wine !!

#6
dinu on 03.02.09 at 3:26 pm

not yet .. they haven’t released it’s Linux and Mac versions

#7
| Balu | on 03.02.09 at 4:03 pm

Wine is awesome.. been using it to play windows only games on linux.. of course its not table enough and crashes quite often. But it comes handy when you have to run a windows program from win partition when logged into linux.

#8
| Balu | on 03.02.09 at 4:04 pm

If you are using linux try KDE 4.01 not quite stable but will make you linux look like (much better than) vista.. do a google image search for preview

#9
dinu on 03.02.09 at 4:13 pm

true .. when I am on Linux, and I just need to try something on a Windows application, it will be helpful !

#10
dinu on 03.02.09 at 4:14 pm

thanks, KDE 4.2 is awesome :)

#11
Nikhil on 03.02.09 at 4:36 pm

Great news!! :) I’ll check it out :)

I’m back from manipal… I met Binny there… :)

#12
dinu on 03.02.09 at 4:41 pm

cool :) Binny is a great friend of mine :D

#13
s4n705h on 03.02.09 at 6:46 pm

I used wine when i was in college and i thought that you must have known about it.

#14
dinu on 03.02.09 at 8:35 pm

I am too late for wine :(
but its great that you know it for years !!

#15
Chirag on 03.04.09 at 10:14 am

Had my Wine like s/w with Mac in my firm, worked on all M$ applications.

#16
dinu on 03.04.09 at 11:15 am

cool :) do you have linux installed any of your computers/laptops ?

#17
Vadim P. on 04.07.09 at 4:55 am

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2009/03/16/pre-alpha-chromium-browser-now-available/

#18
dinu on 04.07.09 at 7:11 pm

thanks for the link :)

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