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Introducing Wine
Wine doesn’t come from the Sonoma Valley or even from the south of France. You can’t get tipsy or spend much money on it either. Wine isn’t a beverage, but rather a software system that allows you to run Windows applications on a Linux computer. Wine helps to fill the Linux application gap.Modern Windows applications, at their core, are written to run on Intel, or Intel-compatible (AMD, for example) Pentium processors. (Some Windows applications are run on Apple Macs; for purposes of this discussion, however, we’re talking about only Intel-based PCs.) However, you can’t just load a program like Microsoft Word on your Linux computer and expect it to work.The Microsoft Windows operating system provides a platform for running Microsoft applications, such as Word. That platform is a little like an electrical plug that provides the power to run various appliances; the appliances are analogous to applications. What the Windows plug provides is a library of commonly used low-level functions that are referred to as an Application Program Interface (API). Those functions perform tasks common to every application, such as opening a file or talking over a network. Using a common library prevents every single application from having to reinvent the wheel. Instead, the applications just plug into the common “outlet” and concentrate on performing their particular function.The problem is that the Windows platform, or “plug,” has square holes and Linux has round ones. You can’t plug Word directly into the Linux operating system, for example. That’s where Wine comes in and provides the adapter so that you can plug the round peg into the square hole.TipWine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. This typical acronym is the type that Linux and Unix programmers love. The Wine acronym means not only that some people just need to get out more, but also that it doesn’t simulate (emulate) the entire Windows environment. Rather, it duplicates the interface between the application and the operating system. Using the electrical plug analogy, Wine doesn’t emulate the entire electrical grid (as in Windows) but, rather, simply provides the adapter.
Introducing Wine
Wine doesn’t come from the Sonoma Valley or even from the south of France. You can’t get tipsy or spend much money on it either. Wine isn’t a beverage, but rather a software system that allows you to run Windows applications on a Linux computer. Wine helps to fill the Linux application gap.Modern Windows applications, at their core, are written to run on Intel, or Intel-compatible (AMD, for example) Pentium processors. (Some Windows applications are run on Apple Macs; for purposes of this discussion, however, we’re talking about only Intel-based PCs.) However, you can’t just load a program like Microsoft Word on your Linux computer and expect it to work.The Microsoft Windows operating system provides a platform for running Microsoft applications, such as Word. That platform is a little like an electrical plug that provides the power to run various appliances; the appliances are analogous to applications. What the Windows plug provides is a library of commonly used low-level functions that are referred to as an Application Program Interface (API). Those functions perform tasks common to every application, such as opening a file or talking over a network. Using a common library prevents every single application from having to reinvent the wheel. Instead, the applications just plug into the common “outlet” and concentrate on performing their particular function.The problem is that the Windows platform, or “plug,” has square holes and Linux has round ones. You can’t plug Word directly into the Linux operating system, for example. That’s where Wine comes in and provides the adapter so that you can plug the round peg into the square hole.TipWine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. This typical acronym is the type that Linux and Unix programmers love. The Wine acronym means not only that some people just need to get out more, but also that it doesn’t simulate (emulate) the entire Windows environment. Rather, it duplicates the interface between the application and the operating system. Using the electrical plug analogy, Wine doesn’t emulate the entire electrical grid (as in Windows) but, rather, simply provides the adapter.
