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🛠️ Title: Wine
🦊️ What's: A libre tool to run Windows & DOS app on Linux
🏡️ winehq.org
🐣️ source.winehq.org/git
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📕️ lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO

🥁️ Update: 11.0-rc1
⚗️ Major release (Unst.)🍏️
📌️ Changes: gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/
🦣️ From: masto.ai/@phoronix/11566906393

🐹️ youtube.com/embed/lI09QLkqZiE
🐹️[fr] youtube.com/embed/Kis9xJ4MPJ4
🎮️ youtube.com/embed/OeVhXlsgElA
🎮️ youtube.com/embed/lsWfddb-img

🕶️ Its GUI (enter "$ winecfg" in terminal, usually not necessary) giving access to its parameters via a series of tabs. The tab displayed is "About", with the tool's logo (a wine glass) and a short summary of its libre license. 📚️ Wine is a libre, multi-platform tool for running Windows applications (and DOS applications via a call to DOSBox) on Linux without requiring a copy of Microsoft's operating system. Wine is not an emulator, but an application that translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on the fly, avoiding the memory overhead and performance losses inherent in other methods, and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications (of all versions) into your desktop.
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