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After 15 years: Wine 1.0 has been Released :)

The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road! While compatibility is not perfect yet, thousands of applications have been reported to work very well. Check http://appdb.winehq.org to see the details for your favorite applications.

What is wine?

Wine HQ

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code

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• On June 17, 2008, 9:15 pm Lisa Marie (http://lisamarie.freehostia.com) said...

  That's exciting. It would definitely decrease the need to use Windows.