What is Wine ?
Wine makes it possible to run Windows programs alongside any Unix-like operating system, particularly Linux. At its heart, Wine is an implementation of the Windows Application Programing Interface (API) library, acting as a bridge between the Windows program and Linux. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer, when a Windows program tries to perform a function that Linux doesn’t normally understand, Wine will translate that program’s instruction into one supported by the system. For example, if a program asks the system to create a Windows pushbutton or text-edit field, Wine will convert that instruction into its Linux equivalent in the form of a command to the window manager using the standard X11 protocol.
Whats New ?
– Support for installation rollbacks in MSI.
– 8- and 16-bit bitmap formats in the DIB engine.
– Fixes in the XInput2 mouse support.
– Better support for text shaping in Uniscribe.
– Improvements to the Item common dialog.
– More MSVC runtime functions.
– Various bug fixes.
Now it should be possible to run Wine on MeeGo and it has been previously done for the Nokia N900, So this is more of a heads up rather than a full “This is how you do it”. As soon as the instructions have been found / tested for MeeGo I will upload. On the other hand if you already have these at hand please feel free to TIP US 🙂 . Jump on over to the Wine site for all the downloads.
