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Location: a magical place, on some remote place on the planet
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 winxp pro, free bsd
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looking for some type of software
... i notice that very often in screen shots of linux desktops that there are windows applications, i am curious about how that they are able to use them.
also is there away to get Final Fantasy and or the Play On LIne Viewer to run in linux
Distribution: SUSE 9.0, 9.2, 10.0, Slackware 10.2 and slamd64
Posts: 135
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You can run some (not all) windows applications with some windows emulator, like wine. There some free.
I don't use this programs yet, but i'v read that the latest versions of some soft for windows doesn't work fine. I don't know about those games.
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