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Makasudin aikin Wine shine samar da "fassarar fassara" don Linux da kuma sauran tsarin aiki na POSIX mai dacewa wanda ke bawa damar amfani da aikace-aikacen Microsoft Windows a waɗannan tsarin .
Wannan fassarar fassarar wata kunshin software ne wanda "ke motsa" Windows API (Windows Application Programming Interface ), amma masu ci gaba suna jaddada cewa ba magudi ba ne a kan cewa yana ƙara ƙarin software a saman tsarin aiki, wanda zai ƙara ƙwaƙwalwar ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya da ƙididdigawa gaba ɗaya kuma yana tasiri tasiri.
Maimakon haka ruwan inabi yana samar da wasu DDLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) waɗanda ake buƙata don gudanar da aikace-aikace. Waɗannan su ne ƙwararrun software na asali wanda, dangane da aiwatar da su, zai zama kamar yadda ya dace ko inganci fiye da takwarorinsu na Windows. Abin da ya sa wasu aikace-aikacen MS Windows sun yi gudu a kan Linux fiye da Windows.
Kungiyar ci gaba ta ruwan inabi ta sami ci gaba sosai wajen cimma burin don taimakawa masu amfani don gudanar da shirye-shiryen Windows a Linux. Ɗaya hanyar da za a auna wannan ci gaba shine ƙidaya yawan shirye-shiryen da aka gwada. Shafin Bayanan Wine yana dauke da fiye da 8500 shigarwar. Ba duka suna aiki daidai ba, amma mafi yawan amfani da Windows aikace-aikace suna gudanawa sosai, kamar su shafukan software masu zuwa da suka hada da Microsoft Office 97, 2000, 2003, da XP, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Adobe Photoshop, Quicken, Quicktime, iTunes, Windows Media Player 6.4, Lotus Notes 5.0 da 6.5.1, Silkroad Online 1.x, Half-Life 2 Kasuwanci, Half Life Life Counter-Strike 1.6, kuma Battlefield 1942 1.6.
Bayan shigar da Wine, za a iya shigar da aikace-aikacen Windows ta ajiye CD a cikin CD ɗin CD, bude buɗewa ta harsashi, yin tafiya zuwa tarihin CD wanda ya ƙunshi shigarwar shigarwa, kuma shigar da "saitin wineupup.exe", idan setup.exe shine shirin shigarwa. .
Lokacin aiwatar da shirye-shirye a giya, mai amfani zai iya zaɓar tsakanin yanayin "allon-in-a-box" da kuma windows windows. Wine yana goyon bayan DirectX da OpenGL wasannin. Taimako don Direct3D an iyakance. Akwai kuma API Wine wanda zai ba masu shirye-shirye damar rubuta software wanda ke gudana shi ne tushen da binary dacewa tare da lambar Win32.
An fara aikin ne a 1993 tare da ƙaddamar da shirin Windows 3.1 akan Linux. Bayan haka, an tsara wasu sigogin sauran tsarin aiki na Unix. Babban mai gudanarwa na aikin, Bob Amstadt, ya mika aikin zuwa Alexandre Julliard a shekara daya. Alexandre na jagorancin kokarin ci gaba tun daga lokacin.