With Lindows, attention sleeps away for Wine
Lindows. com is frequent in the new the last time. The lawsuit, that Microsoft has tightened against the business, many attention swallows on. It is not Microsoft to do the fact that are turned can with Lindows Windows-applications in a Linux-surroundings. About which the Microsoft well round goes is the name Lindows. That is many to be confused with Windows.
All free publicity for the Lindows. com, the business of Michael Robertson that its money have earned with MP3.com. For something more than 100 Euros can users of Lindows just now their Windows-applicaties turn in Linux.
Continuing on do not goes it with Lindows. The product is yet long not ready. There is even yet no concretes or evaluation version available. And according to that inaugurated carefully tested have the first versions of Lindows as, must be worked there yet much on the product. As do not works by Become for Windows under Lindows a large part of the menu positions to belong.
In Lindows is the possible Windows-applicaties to turn to analyze through the API of the program and these to a Linux-version to translate. The API (Application Program Interface) describes how applicaties with each other can communicate (in this case with the operating system).
And that is precise the method, that uses becomes through Wine, a project, that till target has Windows-applicaties in an Unix/Linux-surroundings to turn. The project is moreover open-source.
The Wine-project began already in 1993. Then round applicaties was the target to turn for Windows 3. x under Linux. That is later expanded to Win32-toepassingen. Meanwhile work single hundred developers world-wide at the further extension the system and use more than 100,000 men the application.
Well must be said that Wine not yet finished is. It is developed continual further. The makers give self at that the product not yet ready is for general use.