With Wine, you can install and use most of your windows programs on your Asus EEE PC’s linux.
Wine (the acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a software working as a layer that makes running Windows applications on Linux possible.
One of the reasons I often hear why people install XP on the EEE is that they miss some windows applications and games. Well, we will see how a great quantity of windows program that can be installed and run from Linux through Wine.
Frank’s corner is a great resource about wine, you can find a list of working software. We can mention Photoshop CS, MS Office, or World of Warcraft for example.
Here is a short video showing the installation process
To start your program now, you have to get to the folder on the terminal (cd .wine/drive_c/Progr*/Opera), and type wine Opera.
To speed up the process of starting your windows app in the future, you can create a file in kwrite like the following one:
#/bin/sh
cd .wine/drive_c/Program*/Opera
wine Opera.exe
Save the file as Opera.sh and make it executable with the command chmod +x Opera.sh.
To start Opera, you will just have to run sh Opera.sh.
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April 13th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
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