Wine 0.9.58 Released

Wine 0.9.58 is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. 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, 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. Wine 0.9.58 has the following changes:

Wine 0.9.58 was released today, with the following main changes:

* The default version is now Windows XP.
* Many Richedit improvements.
* Beginning of jscript dll support.
* Shell folders now respect XDG directory configuration.
* Many translation updates.
* Lots of bug fixes.

One Response to “Wine 0.9.58 Released”

  1. I want to try this one :)

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