Wine 1.1.38

4.7 out of 5 stars 4.7 (805 votes)

(February 8, 2010)

Unix / Open Source / 18,253 downloads

Wine is a project to allow a PC running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to run x86 programs for Microsoft Windows. Alternately, those wishing to port a Windows application to a Unix-like system can compile it against the Wine libraries.

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  • Latest Changes

    - Better support for memory allocations debugging

    - Improved MIDI support

    - A wide range of Direct3D fixes

    - OLEDB fixes (should fix Clipart in Office)

    - Improved debugger support on x86-64

    - Many MSI fixes

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  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    B__B

    Reviewing 1.1.36 (Jan 11, 2010)

    There is still a huge work to do, and it is quite to be expected for a such ambitious project like Wine.
    But overall it is good and I can feel that it is getting better at each update.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    Inniosoft

    Reviewing 1.1.33 (Nov 15, 2009)

    This is one of the best Open-Source products I have ever seen. Absolutely Brilliant! That's all there is to say. :)

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    netean

    Reviewing 1.1.28 (Aug 25, 2009)

    I'm pretty impressed with wine. it lets me run A LOT of windows apps. sometimes flawlessly, sometimes not, but the fact it can run them at all I think is amazing.

    I use wine to run a couple of .net apps in (.net v2)
    and dreamweaver cs4 (works perfectly)
    photoshop cs2 also works perfectly

    it can run iTunes too (although why you'd want to!) .

    Consider for a second what it is trying to do - take software designed for one operating system and make it work in another. It's pretty damn amazing.

    I would love to be able to run Word 07 (do NOT mention openoffice to me!) and photoshop cs3/cs4 and lightroom but otherwise it pretty much does everything I need and runs all my most used windows apps pretty darned well.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    JEdwardP

    Reviewing 1.1.22 (May 24, 2009)

    I've always read people saying WINE doesn't work well, and I'm sure for many applications, it still doesn't, but since I switched to Linux as my primary OS in July '07, I've only had the need to regularly run two Windows applications, Mp3tag for personal use and the Citrix ICA client for business (I can't get the Linux version of the Citrix client to run properly for some reason).

    WINE runs both those programs almost perfectly, and does so on an almost daily basis, which means that for my purposes, it's a five-star program.

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    Joco

    Reviewing 1.1.22 (May 23, 2009)

    I am grateful for Wine allowing me to run Windows text based applications where there is no equivalence (of equal performance) in Linux. For me these are archivers and MP3 taggers. Everytime I tried a Windows game, and these are simple board or puzzle games. Not only the game didn't work, once exit back to Ubuntu, the graphical configuration is totally wrecked and took me a lot of time to fix. Since then, if I really need to run these WIndows games, I use a Virtual Machine.

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