{"id":11580,"date":"2008-10-28T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T18:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/10\/28\/11580.html"},"modified":"2008-10-28T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T18:28:53","slug":"run-some-windows-apps-on-macli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/10\/28\/run-some-windows-apps-on-macli\/","title":{"rendered":"Run some Windows apps on Mac\/Linux for free (today only)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today only, <a href=\"http:\/\/down.codeweavers.com\/\">CrossOver<\/a> is available for free download.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don't know, it's a (normally $40) piece of software that lets you run Windows applications, without modification, on a Macintosh or Linux computer, without running Windows.<\/p>\n<p>There are a variety of ways to run Windows on a Mac--you can boot directly into Windows using Boot Camp, or you can run it in a \"virtual machine\" using VMWare or Parallels.  But to do those things, you have to buy a copy of the Microsoft Windows operating system and run it.<\/p>\n<p>CrossOver, by contrast, lets many <em>applications<\/em> that were written to run under Windows run in other (UNIX-based) operating systems, without using Windows at all.<\/p>\n<p>CrossOver is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winehq.org\/\">Wine<\/a>, which is free (and mighty cool). But Wine is kind of intimidating to set up for regular users, especially on the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>I haven't yet actually used CrossOver, but I gather that it's friendlier and easier to set up than plain Wine. I've heard a lot of good things about it; just never got around to installing it 'til now. But now that it's free, hey, why not?<\/p>\n<p>There are actually two free versions of CrossOver today for each platform: the regular version (more stable, better for general use) and the 3D-graphical-games-focused version (may have more features, but is updated more often and thus may be a little less stable). I've grabbed both of them.<\/p>\n<p>For more info about why the software is free today, see an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2008\/10\/27\/codeweavers-says-cheap-gas-free-software-tomorrow\/\">article<\/a> at The Unofficial Apple Weblog.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today only, CrossOver is available for free download. For those who don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s a (normally $40) piece of software&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}