Malware on Wine review

[Ben Klein]

2009/2/26 King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com>:
> So, in theory, Wine could simply run itself on top of Linux (basically a
> ReactOS desktop on top of Linux instead of the NT kernel) and work just like
> Windows because it operates in a native app style? Granted, that probably
> would require quite a bit of tweaking to get it done, and the devs probably
> wouldn't want to do it, but because of its design, that would be possible?

Yes, it's possible to run a win32 userland on Linux via Wine. It's
been tried before, but none of the projects have survived. It's also
not possible to make EVERY application that works in Windows work in
Wine. This might be reduced if Gallium3D or GEM allows DirectX calls
to the graphics cards, but there would still be apps that do checksums
of system DLLs that would fail on Wine ...

Anyway, this is diverging from the topic :)