| Project team uncorks latest Linux Wine |
May 12, 2006
The Wine project has released version 0.9.13 of its free implementation of a Windows application platform for Linux systems, project manager Alexandre Julliard announced May 12. Wine is an open-source translation layer that allows users to run many Windows applications on Linux and Unix operating systems.
Key new features in this release, according to the team, are:- A new GPhoto backend for TWAIN
- Dynamic drive configuration using HAL.
- Numerous Direct3D fixes
- New TCP transport for RPC.
- Numerous bug fixes
The Wine project got its start in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. According to the Wine project's website, "Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop."
Because of lags created by using mirrors, this news story may reach you before the release is available at the public sites, Julliard said.
Binary packages for various distributions will be available here. The sources are now -- or will soon be -- available from Ibiblio and SourceForge. Documentation is here. You can also get the latest source code directly from the git or Wine CVS repositories.
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