Open_Source

Chris Rees utisoft at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 2 20:16:00 UTC 2009


2009/6/2 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at 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


-- 
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list