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I’ve been on another Linux kick, and so of course have checked up on my favorite program, Wine. For those of you who don’t know, Wine (recursively standing for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a compatibility layer for Windows code to run on Linux. This allows you to do cool things like run Photoshop and DirectX games.

Wine recently hit version 1.0, a milestone in it’s very long development. The version as I write is 1.1.3 - and it works beautifully. It runs Civilization 4 Beyond the Sword with very little tweaking. I’ve become an app maintainer for that game, in fact. You can view how to get it working, as well as updates on it’s compatibility with Wine here: Civilization 4 BTS Wine AppDB Page

With yet more games playable on Linux, I won’t need to change to Windows nearly as often. Hence, you can expect some more Linux material from me (yay)!

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