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Great News: Wine Runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux

posted by takyon on Friday February 10 2017, @12:45AM   Printer-friendly
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DannyB writes:

According to this, Wine now runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

In build 15025, wine64-development runs directly on the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

This will be applauded as a great accomplishment for those who need to run Windows executables.

No word on whether Cygwin will run on Wine running on Windows Subsystem for Linux. Also of interest would be to get Wine to be able to run Windows Subsystem for Linux on Wine.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @01:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @01:37AM (#465347)

    Orig AC here: I do have ESX running in VM Fusion - all for the sake of doing it, so I get your point, but still the Q remains: If you have native Win already, why Wine?
    - Someone mentioned security - maybe?

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by tekk on Friday February 10 2017, @02:11AM

    by tekk (5704) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 10 2017, @02:11AM (#465358)

    Backwards compatibility. If you have a really old windows program that won't run on windows, maybe it'll run on wine?

    The real answer is "because we can", though.