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Cedega

Tuesday, 08 May 2007 07:38 Wikipedia®
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Cedega (formerly known as WineX) is TransGaming Technologies' proprietary fork of Wine (from when the license of Wine wasn't the LGPL but the X11 license), which is designed specifically for running games written for Microsoft Windows under Linux. As such, its primary focus is implementing the DirectX API.

The community has managed to keep Wine in touch with developments in Cedega; many of the games and 3D applications perform almost as well as when natively running under Microsoft Windows.

WineX was renamed to Cedega on the release of version 4.0 on June 22, 2004.

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Wine (software)

Tuesday, 08 May 2007 07:18 Wikipedia®
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Wine is a project which aims to allow a PC with an x86 architecture processor running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. Alternatively, those wishing to port a Windows application to a Unix-like system can compile it against the Wine libraries in the form of Winelib.

The name 'Wine' derives from the recursive acronym Wine Is Not an Emulator. While the name sometimes appears in the forms "WINE" and "wine", the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form "Wine".

The Wine developers released the first beta version of Wine (version 0.9) on October 25, 2005 after 12 years of development. Released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Wine is free software.

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Why everyone should use Mozilla Firefox

Tuesday, 01 May 2007 10:07 Tim Mullins
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This articles purpose is to introduce users of Microsoft® Internet Explorer and Outlook Express to the new world of Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird. With the aim to educate and excite the countless millions of users out there who are still using the default Internet applications that come with Microsoft® Windows®. Most users out there don’t even know there is an alternative, they complain about Spyware, Viruses, and Spam not knowing that there are simple and free ways to avoid those Internet threats.
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