Om Windows-programma's ook onder andere besturingssystemen dan Windows te kunnen draaien, is men jaren geleden begonnen met het ontwikkelen van het programma Wine en ondertussen draait dit op Linux en FreeBSD. De ontwikkelaars hebben weer een nieuwe versie de deur uitgedaan van hun eigen implementatie van Microsoft's Win32 Application Programming Interfaces (API). De lijst met veranderingen van versie 0.9.4 ziet er als volgt uit:
This is release 0.9.4 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What's new in this release:Patches should be submitted to "wine-patches@winehq.org". Please don't forget to include a ChangeLog entry. If you submitted a patch, please check to make sure it has been included in the new release.
- Improvements to the IDL compiler.
- Some infrastructure work for loadable driver support.
- The usual assortment of Direct3D improvements.
- IME support in the edit control.
- Better support for AVI animations.
- Debugging support improvements.
- Relay traces now work on NX platforms.
- Lots of bug fixes.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
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Alexandre Julliard