Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X 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.
Changelog:
- Many Direct3D fixes and performance improvements.
- More comctl32 tests and some bug fixes.
- Compatibility improvements in cmd.exe.
- Still more fixes to builtin OLE.
- Support for process control on Solaris.
- Lots of bug fixes.