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md5sum is a builtin utility in openSUSE to verify if a file is reproduced exactly the same as the original. For instance, most if not all of the website from where you download files especially ISO files of operating systems for instance, they offer the MD5 Checksum files to cross verfiy that the download is not being tampered with or if there is a corrupted download. Another instance, would be a file copy where the same verification applies.Read More →

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As most of us know, Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL and Unix. Wine is a Microsoft Windows Emulator for Linux which acts as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs on Linux thereby eliminating the need for Windows and allows users to run Windows based applications on Linux. Wine is completely comprises of non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-basedRead More →