Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it 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 they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.
What's New:
The Wine development release 1.9.17 is now available:
- Better 64-bit binary compatibility on macOS.
- Performance improvements in JavaScript.
- More progress towards the Direct3D command stream.
- More shader instructions in Direct3D.
- Performance improvements in GDI.
- Various bug fixes.
The Wine maintenance release 1.8.3 is now available:
- Various bug fixes.
- A lot of NVidia cards added to the GPU description table.
- Updates to the National Language Support files.