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    Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.


    apparently, it works! wouldn't surprise me either if it's more stable on that platform.

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    In further recent Linux news, somebody came up with a way to run DirectX 11 natively in Linux.

    gr8_phk writes "As reported over at Phoronix, the Direct X 11 API now has an open source implementation on top of Gallium3d which should ease porting of games to Linux with or without Wine. While still in its infancy, you can see where this is heading. All this while Microsoft hasn't offered DX11 fo...


    Combine that with the extant effort to run "wine" (the windows emulator) on windows (!!) for elder games that are non-supported, and what you're looking at is a way to run DirectX 11 on XP. In the future, anyway.



    Too bad that with Linux there's always a substantial tinker-effort involved in getting stuff to actually run as advertised, it acts as a barrier to most people to even try it.

    What this basically means is that you get to run Civ 5 even on older computers using the Linux platform.

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      "wine" (the windows emulator)

      wine is not a windows emulator.

      In fact, that's its name: Wine is not a Windows emulator.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Asher View Post
        "wine" (the windows emulator)

        wine is not a windows emulator.

        In fact, that's its name: Wine is not a Windows emulator.
        technically speaking, you're correct

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