Today, CodeWeavers have released their latest version of the CrossOver suite. CrossOver Linux 6.0 allows you to install and run natively a select few windows applications on top of a Linux system. The applications are installed inside Windows ‘bottles’. The CrossOver suite is based on the Wine application, but has lots of proprietary extensions. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the API on top of X and Unix.

My interest in the current version of CrossOver Linux 6.0 is it’s capability to run World Of Warcraft on Linux. If I had to run any other kind of Windows applications, I would run them inside a VMware virtual machine, but unfortunately 3D graphics are not accelerated in these VMware machines.