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Do you really miss your windows softwares when you are working on a Linux box or a Mac?
Do you wish you could use your Windows softwares like right from your Linux operating system? In general, Linux, Solaris, Mac and Windows all use different software architecture; so we cannot run Windows softwares on Linux or Linux software packages on Windows systems. But is there any way to use Windows executable softwares from Linux? The answer is definitely positive. You can run Windows softwares on Linux systems too. But to do so, you have to install another software program named Wine on your Linux box. I am operating on a Windows 7 and Ubuntu dual boot PC. Sometimes when I'm using Ubuntu, I want to run some Windows program right from Ubuntu without switching back to Windows. Wine falicitates the purpose very well. I will describe the process of installing and using Wine in simple words in this short tutorial.
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