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Date:      Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:15:39 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, madunix <madunix@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Open_Source
Message-ID:  <b79ecaef0906021315p1113b678t95870adef9cc9288@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906022109410.24091@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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2009/6/2 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>:
>>
>> Multiple linux/bsd distributions: (RHEL, SuSE, FreeBSD + commercial
>> UNIX as AIX)
>> Monitoring Application:(Cacti, Nagios, MRTG)
>> Backup utility:(rsync, tar, mondo)
>> Content Management system:(Jommla, Durpal)
>> Virtualization:(Wine)
>
> wine is virtualization?
>

You're right, wine is NOT virtualization (sic).

It merely implements the 'Windows' API to make it available for
'Windows' programs. There is no 'translation' or 'emulation'.

This is why Wine is an acronym: Wine Is Not an Emulator.

Chris


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