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1.4 What is the difference between Wine, CrossOver, and Cedega?.1.3 Is Wine an emulator? There seems to be disagreement.

1.2 Does Wine hurt Linux or other free operating systems?.

Wine's "emulator" is really just a binary loader that allows Windows applications to interface with the Wine API replacement. Thinking of Wine as just an emulator is really forgetting about the other things it is. "Wine is not just an emulator" would be a more correct name.

Winelib can be used for porting windows application source code to other operating systems that Wine supports to run on any processor - even processes that neither Windows nor the Emulator bit of Wine supports.

Some virtual machines use Wine's OpenGL-based implementation of Direct3D on Windows rather than truly emulate 3D hardware. There are a few things that makes wine more than just an emulator. Setting Wine to mimic Windows XP is not much different from setting Vista to launch an application in XP compatibility mode. That said, Wine can be thought of as a Windows emulator in much the same way that Windows Vista can be thought of as a Windows XP emulator both allow you to run the same applications by translating system calls in much the same way. Wine is just a native Unix substitute for the components of Windows there is no inherent loss of speed due to "emulation" when using Wine, nor is there a need to open Wine before running your application. This is the wrong way to think about Wine - Wine runs Windows applications in essentially the same way Windows does. When users think of an emulator, they tend to think of things like game console emulators or virtualization software. There is a lot of confusion about this, particularly caused by people getting Wine's name wrong and calling it WINdows Emulator. Цитировать Is Wine an emulator? There seems to be disagreement.