Today Wine 1.0 and Firefox 3 were released, which will probably be remembered as a milestone in the open source software movement.
Wine is a Windows emulator for Linux, in the colloquial sense of the term – that is, it allows you to run many Windows applications straight from Linux. This because there are probably many people interested in Linux who can’t switch because of a few Windows applications they need. This allows them to switch, assuming those programs work in Wine.
(More technically, I think I understand that Wine is not an emulator – which is actually what the acronym stands for – because it just reproduces the API without mucking about with more basic levels of Windows. Right?)
And Firefox I suppose needs no introduction. I’ll just say I rather like the new and improved location bar.
