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Amazon Linux vs Wine

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Overview

Amazon Linux
Amazon Linux
Stacks145
Followers149
Votes0
Wine
Wine
Stacks35
Followers38
Votes0
GitHub Stars3.7K
Forks1.2K

Amazon Linux vs Wine: What are the differences?

Amazon Linux: The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon EC2. The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2); Wine: A compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems. It is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.

Amazon Linux and Wine belong to "Operating Systems" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Amazon Linux are:

  • AWS Integration
  • Secure Configuration
  • Package Repository Access

On the other hand, Wine provides the following key features:

  • X11-based graphics allows remote display to any X terminal
  • MacOS and Android based graphics support
  • X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) Fonts

Wine is an open source tool with 953 GitHub stars and 526 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Wine's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon Linux
Amazon Linux
Wine
Wine

The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

It is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.

AWS Integration;Secure Configuration;Package Repository Access;Security Updates;Lightweight;AWS Support
X11-based graphics allows remote display to any X terminal; MacOS and Android based graphics support; X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) Fonts; Support for DirectX based games and applications (Direct3D support up to DX11); Support for OpenGL based games and applications
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
3.7K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
1.2K
Stacks
145
Stacks
35
Followers
149
Followers
38
Votes
0
Votes
0
Integrations
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Linux
Linux
macOS
macOS
Windows
Windows
Bugzilla
Bugzilla

What are some alternatives to Amazon Linux, Wine?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Debian

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Arch Linux

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

Linux Mint

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

CentOS

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

Linux

Linux

A clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

CoreOS

CoreOS

It is designed for security, consistency, and reliability. Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, it uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many machines.

Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux

It is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

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