Wine (software)
compatibility layer for running Windows software on Unix-like systems
Wine is a piece of software which lets Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 and x86-64 architectures to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows. Wine runs Windows programs without using emulation. Wine also provides a software library known as Winelib which developers can compile Windows applications against to help port them to Unix-like systems.[3] Some Wine code is used in ReactOS, a free operating system that is Windows-compatible and is not based on Unix.
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| Original author(s) | Alexandre Julliard |
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| Developer(s) | Wine authors (1,426 and counting) |
| Initial release | July 4, 1993 |
| Stable release | 9.0[1] 
/ 16 January 2024 |
| Preview release | 6.0-rc2[2]
/ 11 December 2020; 18 December 2020; 29 January 2021; 12 February 2021; 26 February 2021; 12 March 2021; 26 March 2021; 9 April 2021; 23 April 2021; 7 May 2021; 21 May 2021; 4 June 2021; 18 June 2021; 2 July 2021; 20 July 2021; 30 July 2021; 13 August 2021; 27 August 2021; 10 September 2021; 24 September 2021; 8 October 2021; 22 October 2021; 5 November 2021; 19 November 2021; 3 December 2021; 10 December 2021; 17 December 2021; 28 January 2022; 11 February 2022; 25 February 2022; 11 March 2022; 25 March 2022; 8 April 2022; 22 April 2022; 6 May 2022; 20 May 2022; 3 June 2022; 17 June 2022; 1 July 2022; 15 July 2022; 29 July 2022; 13 August 2022; 28 August 2022; 9 September 2022; 23 September 2022; 14 October 2022; 31 October 2022; 11 November 2022; 26 November 2022; 2 February 2023; 17 February 2023; 3 March 2023; 17 March 2023; 31 March 2023; 14 April 2023; 28 April 2023; 12 May 2023; 26 May 2023; 9 June 2023; 23 June 2023; 7 July 2023; 21 July 2023; 18 August 2023; 1 September 2023; 15 September 2023; 29 September 2023; 13 October 2023; 29 October 2023; 10 November 2023; 24 November 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Size | 19 MB (archived) |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Compatibility layer |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
| Website | https://www.winehq.org |
The Wine developers released version 1.0 of Wine, after 15 years of development, on June 17 2008. Wine is free software, released under terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
References change
- ↑ "Wine 9.0 Released". 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ↑ "Wine 6.0-rc2 Released". Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ↑ "Winelib". Wine HQ. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
Other websites change
- Official website
- Wine newsgroup (Google web interface)
- Jeremy White's Wine Answers - Slashdot interview with Jeremy White of CodeWeavers
- Jeremy White interview Archived 2008-02-24 at the Wayback Machine on the "Mad Penguin" web-site
- Appointment of the Software Freedom Law Center as legal counsel to represent the Wine project
- Wine Archived 2011-08-08 at the Wayback Machine on Freshmeat
- Wine: Where it came from, how to use it, where it's going a work by Dan Kegel
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