Winboat is a new technology to run Windows apps on Linux. If the developers can deliver, this will be a game changer.

How to run Windows applications on Linux Windows applications run on Linux through the use of third-party software. This capability does not exist inherently in the Linux kernel or operating system.

You can run many native Windows programs on Linux using Wine. This can be hard to set up, but its commercial brother, CodeWeaver’s Crossover Linux, makes it easy to set up many proprietary ...

Running on a Quad Core Phenom, DOSBox's performance was good: I encountered no performance problems with video or sound. I also noticed that while running it didn't appear to require any more CPU than ...

Wine, a free Windows compatibility tool for Linux (and other Intel-based systems), aims to make those programs run without too much cross-system trickery.