Tech Wizard

In the software domain, especially in that of Linux, Wine needs no introduction. It is one of the most popular software that a Linux user uses. For those who don’t know what Wine is, here is a brief introduction about this wonderful piece of product.

Wine is 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.

Today, Wine took another step in the history with the commencement of its new version “1.0-rc2″. This release is a free execution of Windows on UNIX. Basically, the new version comes up with an ample amount of bug fixes. A brief list of changes can be found below.

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Linux; The first word that comes to the mind if any normal human being is an Operating System which is not at all User Friendly, you need to have a real in depth knowledge of Computers to use Linux. Well all this was true earlier but not now! Linux is has developed a lot and is very user-friendly as well! Linux has many Variants like Windows XP has in the form of Home and Professional, these variants of Linux are known as Distro and we are going to talk about the most popular Linux distro “Ubuntu”.

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