Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and
Unix.
Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs.
Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative
implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% 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-based Unixes, including
Linux,
FreeBSD,
Mac OS X, and
Solaris.
More information can be read in the articles Why Wine
is so important, and Debunking Wine Myths.
If you are wondering how well a particular application works in Wine, please
examine the Applications Database. For
installation instructions and step-by-step help with running Wine, take a look
at the User Guide.
The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!
While compatibility is not perfect yet, thousands of applications have been reported to work very well. Check http://appdb.winehq.org to see the details for your favorite applications.
The source is available now.
Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
June 13, 2008: Wine 1.0-rc5 Released
The Wine development release 1.0-rc5 is now available.
This should be the last release candidate for Wine 1.0, please give it a good testing.
Wine 1.0-rc4 was released today, with the following main changes:
Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a
few days for them to appear, but the source is
available now.
You can find out more about this release in the
announcement. Check out our
download page for packages for your
distribution.
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