Wine is a free and open source tool that makes it possible to run many Windows apps and games on Linux and other operating systems including Android, macOS, and FreeBSD. And the latest version brings a number of significant new features and improvements. Updates in Wine 7.0 include improved support for theming, improved graphics, support […]
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Run (some) Windows apps on Haiku operating system thanks to Wine port
Haiku is free and open source operating system designed to be compatible with BeOS, a legacy operating system from the 1990s. Haiku itself has been under development for two decades, but it’s still considered beta software (and it only hit that state a few years ago). While there’s a relatively limited number of native apps […]
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Wine 6.0.1 lets you run 64-bit Windows apps on Apple Silicon
Wine is a free and open source utility that makes it possible to run some Windows applications on non-Windows operating systems including Linux, and Android, macOS. And starting with Wine version 6.0.1, that also includes support for running 64-bit Windows applications on Macs with Apple M1 processors. Apple Silicon support comes courtesy of code contributions […]
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Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows apps on the web (or Linux, Mac, or… Windows)
Comments Off on Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows apps on the web (or Linux, Mac, or… Windows)The free and open source Wine utility that makes it possible to run some Windows applications on Linux and Mac computers is not an emulator, but rather a compatibility layer. The name is actually an abbreviation for Wine Is Not an Emulator. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do some pretty cool things when you […]
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Lilbits: Open source graphics, Samsung takes on Tile, and Google gets Fit(bit)
More than a year after announcing plans to buy Fitbit for $2.1 billion, Google has announced that the deal has closed. The announcement may be a little premature, but Google says that despite the company’s reputation for shutting down the companies it acquires and for monetizing everything with ads, there are no plans to sell […]
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Hangover lets (some) Windows x86 apps run on Linux PCs with ARM or POWER chips
Want to run Windows apps on a Linux computer? WINE may be able to help. Want to run x86 bit applications on a PC with an ARM-based processor, or vice versa? Then an emulator like QEMU might be may be able to help. And if you want to do both of those things at once? […]
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CrossOver lets you run Windows apps on Chromebooks (now out of beta)
The first Chromebooks were designed to run web apps only. But a few years back Google added support for running Android apps, and then Linux apps. Now you can also run Windows applications on a Chromebook… although it requires installing a third-party tool that sells for $40 and up. CodeWeavers has announced that CrossOver 20 […]
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Wine 5.0 released (Windows compatibility layer for Linux, Mac, Android, and BSD)
The Wine project has been letting folks run some Windows applications on Unix-like operating systems including Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD for decades… and a few years ago, the developers of this open source project added limited support for Android as well. Wine 5.0 is now available for all supported platforms, and it brings a number […]
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CrossOver 19 runs 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit only macOS Catalina
CrossOver is software that allows you to run Windows programs on non-Windows operating systems including Linux, Chrome OS, and macOS. But one problem with that last part is that an awful lot of Windows applications are 32-bit… and even many 64-bit apps have 32-bit installers. So when dropped support for 32-bit apps with the launch […]
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Wine on Windows lets you run Windows apps… on Windows (through Windows Subsystem for Linux)
20 Comments on Wine on Windows lets you run Windows apps… on Windows (through Windows Subsystem for Linux)Wine is a compatibility layer that makes it possible to run some Windows applications on non-Windows operating systems including Linux and macOS. So naturally some folks have been trying for years to see if they could run Wine on Windows for no particularly good reason. Up until recently it hasn’t really been possible. Now it […]