The Wine emulator, which is used to run Windows programs on Unix-like systems such as Linux and OS X, is being ported to Android.
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard delivered a keynote yesterday at the FOSDEM open source conference in Brussels, where he did a “brief showing of Wine on Android,” reports the tech news site Phoronix. Performance in the demo was reported to be “horrendously slow,” but that was at least partly because Julliard was using an emulated version of Android on a laptop rather than an Android phone or tablet.
Wine, by the way, stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator,” although the Wine wiki notes that it is more accurate to say “Wine is not just an emulator” because it does more than simple emulation.
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