WINE

[Software]

Amrit Narayan Thakur

B.Sc IT 4th semester

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SLIDER CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

WINE BENEFITS

WINE FEAUTURES

WINE DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE

VERSIONS

METHODS OF INSTALLATION

FUTURE

WHY WINE

WINE HISTORY

INTRODUCATIONWine : Wine is not an emulator

Wine is a free and open source software application

that aims to allow applications designed

for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-

like operating systems.

Wine is an implementation of the windows API.

Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running

windows applications on several POSIX compatible

operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.

WINE BENEFITS

Wine makes it possible to take advantage of all

the Unix strong points.

Wine makes it possible to access windows

applications remotely.

Wine makes it economical to use.

Wine is open source software.

WINE FEAUTURES

Support for running win16,win32 and DOS

programs.

Optional use of external vendor DLL files(such

as those included with windows).

X11-based graphics display, allowing remote

display to any x terminal, as well as a text mode.

WINE DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE

Wine software developers uses ‘C’ language for

its development.

Wine is not small at all. Wine 1.0 have over 1.8

million lines of C code (with blank lines and

comments).

VERSIONS

The standard version of wine comes in

intermittent releases(roughly twice a

month),and can be downloaded over the internet

in both prepackaged binary from and ready to

compile source code form.

Latest version : Wine 1.1.12

METHODS OF INSTALLATION

Three methods of installation:

Installation from a package.

Installation from a source archive.

Installation from a Git tree.

FUTURE

To provide build dependencies in a single

package.

Removal of bugs that are reported.

DirectX support for games.

Support for scanners, CD writers, and other

devices.

Modem, serial device support.

WHY WINE

Most software programs won’t work on systems

that weren’t designed for.

Windows programs, for example won’t run in

Linux and vice versa.

Solution : Dual Booting.

But this option presents great.

WINE HISTORYT

The WINE project started in 1993 as a way tosupport running windows 3.1 programs onlinux.bob amstadt was the original coordinator,but turned it over fairly early on to alexanderjulliard, who has run it ever since.

Wine is stillunder development, and it is not yet.

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