Hi i just registered and tried to review some forums and articles. it seems i must post to get started?? i am running ubuntu which i downloaded and installed with dual boot for windows xp. now i run ubuntu most of the time. i have dosbox to run qbasic applications. i would like to understand and use WINE for windows emulation. i have updated ubuntu to 10.04lts. at times i have questions and some help would be appreciated. thanks ken

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

Wine should be in Ubuntu's repositories, so you can install it with Synaptic or apt-get or whatever you use to manage your software.

Keep in mind that Wine is not an emulator (in fact, that used to be what "WINE" stood for before the name was changed to sentence-case ). It is a compatibility layer that allows Windows applications to be run in user-space under Linux-based operating systems. Put simply, Wine acts as a sort of "translation layer" between the two OSes, intercepting system calls from the Windows program and translating them to Linux system calls. It does not attempt to emulate the Windows NT kernel in any way, it just implements the Windows API in Linux user-space.

Even so, it isn't complete. Granted, it has come very far, and quite a few Windows programs do run well under Wine, but don't expect every Windows program that you have to run under Wine.

Just my advice

What do you mean by "you have to post to register"?

hi thanks for the updates. after registering i tried looking at tutorials and was rejected for lack of a query?? maybe i was confused as it does not take much. i am really new to linux so will have other questions.
thanks....

It's part of the anti-spam measure. You have to make a first post to activate URL posting and other areas of the board.

Welcome to LQ ken poy