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handbook/wine: add Mizuma's source code URL, and small typos #360

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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions documentation/content/en/books/handbook/wine/_index.adoc
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== Synopsis

https://www.winehq.org/[WINE], which stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, is technically a software translation layer.
It enables to install and run some software written for Windows(R) on FreeBSD (and other) systems.
It enables to install and run software written for Windows(R) on FreeBSD (and other) systems.
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I fixed this with a follow-up commit since it was a preexisting issue unaffected by your edit, but "enables" is a transitive verb that needs a direct object, like "it enable users to install and run software" ... but "users" is pretty vague in this context so I went with an alternative verb that is intransitive.

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Thanks for the update!


It operates by intercepting system calls, or requests from the software to the operating system, and translating them from Windows(R) calls to calls that FreeBSD understands.
It will also translate any responses as needed into what the Windows(R) software is expecting.
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=== Winetricks

The `winetricks` tool is a cross-platform, general purpose helper program for WINE.
It is not developed by the WINE project proper, but rather maintained on https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks[Github] by a group of contributors.
It is not developed by the WINE project proper, but rather maintained on https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks[GitHub] by a group of contributors.
It contains some automated "recipes" for getting common applications to work on WINE, both by optimizing the settings as well as acquiring some DLL libraries automatically.

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=== Mizutamari

Mizutamari is an application similar to `winetricks`, although it was inspired by the https://lutris.net/[Lutris] gaming system for Linux.
https://codeberg.org/Alexander88207/Mizutamari[Mizutamari] is an application similar to `winetricks`, although it was inspired by the https://lutris.net/[Lutris] gaming system for Linux.
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It's also available in the ports collection as games/mizuma, but the link to its homepage seems more appropriate than the ports collection entry, for this purpose, so I left it alone.

But while it is focused on games, there are also non-gaming applications available for install through Mizutamari.

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There are a number of resources focused on other operating systems that may be useful for FreeBSD users:

* https://wiki.winehq.org/[The WINE Wiki] has a wealth of information on using WINE, much of which is applicable across many of WINE's supported operating systems.
* Similarly, the documentation available from other OS projects can also be of good value. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wine[The WINE page] on the Arch Linux Wiki is a particularly good example, although some of the "Third-party applications" (i.e., "companion applications") are obviously not available on FreeBSD.
* Similarly, the documentation available from other OS projects can also be of good value. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wine[The WINE page] on the Arch Linux Wiki is a particularly good example, although some of the "Third-party applications" (i.e., "companion applications") are obviously not available on FreeBSD.
* Finally, Codeweavers (a developer of a commercial version of WINE) is an active upstream contributor. Oftentimes answers to questions in https://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums[their support forum] can be of aid in troubleshooting problems with the open source version of WINE.
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