Wine

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Wine is an open source project that allows x86 Windows applications to run on Unix-like operating systems. Its name is derived from the self-recursive acronym Wine Is Not an Emulator, although unofficially it has been expanded as WINdows Emulator. Despite being an acronym, its developers have agreed upon the name "Wine" rather than "WINE".

The Wine developers describe it as "a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop." [1]

In February 2006, it was reported that the first versions of Wine for Intel Macs had been compiled and were running, albeit with limited compatibility.

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