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Raven - A Windows your apps recognize. (useraven.org)

submitted 5 days ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Raven runs Windows applications on Linux. You install them with their own installers, the same ones you would use on a PC, and they start: no virtual machine, no winetricks, no DLL overrides.

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[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Sounds like sort of a hybrid between a VM and WINE where programs get access to a real Windows kernel. Sounds promising and it’ll be interesting to see how this turns out.