Wine 1.0 Released

Following on the heals of Firefox’s 3.0 release (albeit two days early), the Wine team released their 1.0 gold version of the popular open source software, which allows Windows applications to run on Linux (and Unix.. and OS X..) without the use of an emulator or virtual machine. The new version offers little more than grammatical error fixes in the application, but it’s awesome to know that the 15-year project finally hit its milestone 1 dot 0 release.

It’s a painful and frustrating process to reverse engineer the Windows API, and the developers who donated their time had to recreate the framework for Windows with little assistance. Hopefully their progress will diminish the barrier to entry for individuals and corporations who rely on Windows programs and allow them to take the dive into Linux.

Here’s to improving compatibility onward and to future releases.

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.