An unofficial step, but a big one regardless.

Wine, the software that Microsoft has partially credited with making Windows 10 Windows Subsystem for Linux possible, has been updated with over 7,400 changes. Wine is a compatibility layer, designed ...

Over the course of the three weeks I have been using Ubuntu so far for the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux series, there have been sporadic comments suggesting that I just run this app or that app in a ...

As free and open source software continues to become more powerful and more prevalent, there’s less and less need to choose anything else. It’s not at all surprising, for example, to see the recent ...

This week, Wine—the project that allows you to run many Microsoft Windows applications on non-Windows platforms—hit a rather huge milestone: version 2.0. From the Wine 2.0 release notes: “This release ...

Forward-looking: Linux powers the vast majority of the world's computing infrastructure, yet it has long struggled to gain traction with everyday users – and with creative professionals, where macOS ...

Big Blue employees use Wine to run Lotus Notes, but a company manual refers to it as a 'temporary workaround' IBM’s effort to promote Linux as a viable alternative on the company’s 350,000 corporate ...

Aside from the new support for 64-bit software and Office, the update also brings along improved font handling, better drag-and-drop support, ansupport for a bunch of new graphics cards. As always, ...

In today's open source roundup: How to run Windows software in your favorite Linux distribution. Plus: Four tools to securely delete data in Linux, and MIPS-powered Chromebooks might be on the way ...