[Wine] Wine on Windows XP

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at sprintpcs.com
Sun Jun 22 20:22:59 CDT 2008


Michael Reich wrote:
>
> On 6/21/08 wine-users-request at winehq.org wrote:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:03:58 -0500
>> From: "jsmith" <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
>> Subject: [Wine]  wine only installed on linux?
>> To: wine-users at winehq.org
>> Message-ID: <1214060638.m2f.8323 at forum.winehq.org>
>>
>> Can wine only be installed on a linux platform or is there a way to 
>> download it and run it on windows xp?
>>   
> Wine is a program that enables users to run Windows programs on 
> non-Windows operating systems, including Linux, and Mac OSX.  Why 
> would you want to install it on XP?
>
Because Wine does a better job of emulating Windows 2000/Windows 
NT/Windows 98SE than Windows XP does.   That is just one reason.

James McKenzie



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