Wine 0.9.13, a free implementation of Windows on UNIX systems, has been released. The change log over the previous version is as follow:

Change Log:

• New GPhoto backend for TWAIN.
• Dynamic drive configuration using HAL.
• A gazillion Direct3D fixes.
• New TCP transport for RPC.
• Lots of bug fixes.

Downloads:
Sources

• http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-0.9.13.tar.bz2
• http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-0.9.13.tar.bz2

Binary

• http://www.winehq.org/site/download

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and UNIX.

Simply, it means if you are running UNIX or Linux, you won’t be able to run any Windows program. Wine provides a compatibilty layer for UNIX and Linux users to run Windows programs, without requiring Microsoft Windows operating systems to be present. As such, Wine 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 only they are available.

Wine has provided both a development toolkit and program loader. Some of the unmodified Windows programs can thus run on x-86 Unixes, such as FreeBSD, Solaris, as well as Linux operating systems.

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