The next series of articles will mostly be about transitioning from Windows to Linux. I'm planning how-tos on installation of a few distros, as well as some software to use once in that will be (mostly) universal. However, as I know some people are hesitant to migrate completely due to software availability, I thought I would mention WINE.
Wine stands for Windows Emulator, meaning that it tricks the computer into thinking its installing a program into a Windows environment, and then can (usually) run that piece of software. Wine has also gone further into another program, called Cedega, that allows for gaming with Windows Games on Unix/Linux clients. Wine will run a wide variety of software, with some big names still missing. One of the big names for me, because I do a lot of photography, is Adobe Photoshop. I have yet to successfully install Adobe Photoshop on wine, or really any Adobe software. This is because of Adobe's convuluted installation process. This is one of the exceptions, however.
In OpenSolaris, installing Wine is very easy. First we add yet another repository!
pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib contributions
pkg refresh
Then the install
pkg install wine
Easy as pie. In Ubuntu, Mint, and other Debian Linux derivatives, apt-get will be just as easy to install with.
apt-get install wine
And Fedora Core, Redhat, and Centos or other Redhat derivitives can use yum.
yum install wine
As you can see, package management systems have really taken off, and are fantastic additions to Linux and Unix systems, making it very easy to install software anymore. So try out Wine, and make the switch a little bit easier.
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