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these products will let you ???run Word on Linux,??? but you will need your own copy of
Word to install and run. If all you need is a Linux application that will let you open
and edit Word documents, use OpenOffice or another of the Linux office suites.
Using Wine to Run Windows Applications
The Wine project chose its name in the fine GNU recursive-acronym tradition: Wine Is
Not (an) Emulator, or so it says. Nonetheless, this open source project has been helping
Linux users run Windows applications for a long time.
As mentioned in the overview, Wine works by attempting to turn Windows system calls
into Linux kernel calls, in part by making the Windows application think it is resting
comfortably in a Windows directory.
The Wine environment is targeted for Windows 98, and so applications behave as though
they were running under Windows 98.
So far, this is not a problem, but now that Microsoft has dropped support for this operating
system, other companies are likely to follow suit. Nonetheless, be careful when
buying new applications that you want to run under Wine.
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