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Can I run Windows applications under Linux?

An excellent summary of the current state of:

• WINE -- www.winehq.com
  designed to allow win32 binaries to be run directly
• DOSEMU -- www.dosemu.org
  this is really an environment to run a copy of DOS inside it
• and some other Windows/DOS emulators of the time

...was in issue #44, The Answer Guy, "Running Win '95 Apps under Linux". Admittedly it has been a while but both projects still exist and are doing very well indeed.

There is also a program called VMware (www.VMWare.com) which lets you run several "virtual computers" concurrently as applications, each with its own Operating System. There is a review in Linux Journal about it.

You might consider Bochs (www.bochs.com), which also works on non-Intel hardware and the BSD family.

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