Wine 1.1.12 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 1.1.12 has the following changes:

What’s new in this release:

• Some simple 64-bit apps should now run.
• Support for subpixel font rendering.
• 64-bit code generation in the IDL compiler.
• New version of the Gecko engine.
• Various bug fixes.