Wine (software)
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.[1] 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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| Wine configuration screenshot.png screenshot of winecfg | |
| Original author(s) | Alexandre Julliard |
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| Developer(s) | Wine authors (1,426 and counting) |
| Initial release | July 4, 1993 |
| 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).
Wine (software) Media
WINE project logo with text
A screenshot of the Play on Linux software.
App compatibility progress over time, according to Wine AppDB test results.* Software works flawlessly* Software works flawlessly after configuration* Minor problems with the software* Major problems with the software* Completely non-functional software
WineHQ application ratings over the time.
WINE Solitaire running on Android
References
Other websites
- 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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