Whats an emulator? Can I use one to run my Windows applications on Linux?
An emulator is a piece of software that pretends to be a piece of hardware. Emulators such as VMWare and Win4Lin can be installed on Linux. You then install a copy of Windows, and finally your Windows software. In other words, you don’t use an emulator on Linux instead of Windows; you use it in order to use Linux and Windows on the same machine, and you still need the Windows operating system and a licence for it. Some translators who prefer to use Linux but who insist on using one or two Windows applications – Déjà Vu is one of the favourites – use this solution.
