I think this fact has never been commented here in the list before, so I
write this post for the record.
It is possible to run Maxima's windows executable in Linux with 'wine',
just write:
$ sudo apt-get install wine
$ wine maxima-5.17.1.exe
In Ubuntu Hardy, wgnuplot, maxima, xmaxima and wxmaxima all worked
without problems. Probably the same can be said for other linuxes.
Mario