Tom's Hardware Guide has posted an interesting article on Windows Gaming in Linux with WineX 2.0. Thanks Mark.
The first is the Wine project. Wine is the open source effort to create a set of Windows APIs for Linux. Emulators like Win4Lin create a container that looks like a PC so that you can install a genuine copy of Windows. What Wine does is create a container for Windows applications that looks like a Windows operating system. As you can imagine, pretending to be a PC is much easier than reverse engineering all of the Windows DLLs, and in general, Win4Lin and VMWare will have better compatibility than Wine.Read more
