


Some nefarious Windows programs have been known to do damage to partitions even when run from a safe, bootable CD environment. Do not add the wine user to privileged groups like the disk group. Unless you know exactly what you are doing, please do not run wine as root or sudo. It does this by providing many-but not all-of the necessary and commonly-used Windows function calls and services that Windows applications expect. Instead, it allows Windows programs to run natively on Linux, Mac, BSD, OSX, and other POSIX operating systems. Wine stands for Wine is Not an Emulator because Wine does not actually set up a complete Windows emulation environment.
