What is PlayOnLinux ? PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and softwares designed to run with Microsoft's Windows®.

PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and softwares designed to run with Microsoft®'s Windows®. In this tutorial i will show you how to install MS office 2007 student using Playonlinux on ubuntu jaunty jackalope, the installation has been tested also on a ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala, the install process is easy and no command lines are used.

PlayOnLinux 3.7.6 is now available. Two major bugs fixed Using an old wineversion to install a program caused problems and Compatibility with Lucid Lynx Install window crashed when the user clicked on Install button. We strongly recommend you to upgrade PlayOnLinux.

Many people will agree that the single biggest weak point of Linux on the desktop is the lack of commercial games... Enter PlayonLinux. PlayonLinux uses custom Wine scripts to set up an independent environment for each application you install. This allows you to have independent Wine settings for each game, rather than trying to make a single prefix work for every application.

Here is PlayOnLinux version 3.0 as announced, the release of your favorite front-end to Wine, PlayOnLinux.

This is a major version. Here is what's new:

A whole range of new functions

I want to point out that v2 scripts are still compatible with this version. But we decided to re-design the installation programs nevertheless. Here is the new interface:

Updated scripts

PlayOnLinux is a Free Sofware which allows users to easily install and use lot of Windows games and softwares in Linux. Few games are compatible with GNU/Linux at the moment and it certainly is a factor preventing the migration to this system. PlayOnLinux brings an accessible and efficient solution to this problem, cost-free and rescpetful of the free softwares.

Here comes a plugin that some of you have awaited for a while!

It's a plugin which allows you to backup the whole prefix of an application installed in PlayOnLinux, the version of Wine used with it (it's defined in "PlayOnLinux -> Tools -> Manage Wine versions"), and the launcher of that application.

New PlayOnLinux helper plugin adds, Create or Edit PlayOnLinux scripts, Change icons of PlayOnLinux scripts, Rename PlayOnLinux scripts, Create shortcuts on your desktop and in the menu for PlayOnLinux script, Easily use WineTricks with PlayOnLinux prefixes. And so much more...

To this day, PlayOnLinux has provided you with more than a hundred scripts. Thanks to PlayOnLinux quite a few people have made their final step towards Linux. Maybe you are among those recent addition to the community. As you know, Playonlinux allows you to use applications made for windows on the GNU/Linux operating system of your choice for free.