September 29th, 2006 by Keith
Wine 0.9.22 Released
Posted in Development Software, Linux, Site News, Utilities
Wine 0.9.22, a free implementation of Windows on UNIX systems, has been released. Some improvements have been noted in this version, since my last post
Feature Improvements:
- – The usual assortment of MSI improvements.
- – Several bug fixes to the various common controls.
- – Pixel shaders enabled by default in D3D.
- – Various improvements to the build process.
- – Many translation updates.
- – Lots of bug fixes.
Note that Fedora packages can be installed from the Fedora Extras repository by running yum install wine.
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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