[Gllug] Forward of moderated message

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On Aug 27, 2011 5:10 AM, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:
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> Wine is an emulation environment of Windows so Photoshop is not actually
running under Linux natively it's merely a trick to make it usable under
Linux.
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But WINE is not an emulator. It is an api.
For Linux apps, you have libc etc. So that the linux app can talk to the
kernel. WINE is an api so that window apps can talk to the kernel.
WINE runs windows apps naively in Linux.
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