[Wine] wine only installed on linux?

[David Gerard]

2008/6/22 Michael Reich <reich.mikey at gmail.com>:

> 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?


For the sheer hack value!

er, I mean, to build a more robust Wine and Cygwin/Mingw. Yeah.

Alternately, look how Microsoft plan to sell Windows 7 piece by piece:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080323-evidence-mounting-windows-7-going-modular-subscription.html

There could be quite a market for Wine on Windows.


- d.