Download Wine 0.9.17

Using Wine, it is possible to run DOS and Windows programs on POSIX-based operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD. Wine can run DOS and Windows applications by first loading them into a program loader and then comparing the Windows API calls to its Unix and X11 counterparts through its own libraries. The developers of Wine have just released version 0.9.17 released. The update is from this page for many Linux distributions and includes the following changes:

Wine 0.9.17 was tagged today. Alexandre noted the following changes in this release:

• Still more work on Direct3D shaders.
• Now using the Gecko engine directly for MSHTML.
• Better support for apps switching to full screen mode.
• Support for multiple joysticks.