Download Wine 0.9.28

Just under two weeks after the previous release, the people behind Wine have a new version set up. This time it concerns version 0.9.28, which is from this page can be downloaded for a large number of Linux distros and via this mirror server as source code to compile for other operating systems such as FreeBSD and Solaris. Wine allows DOS and Windows programs to run 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 using proprietary libraries to compare Windows API calls against their Unix and X11 counterparts. Below is the changelog of Wine 0.9.28:

Wine 0.9.28 was released today, with the following main changes:

• OpenGL in child windows should work again.
• Better mouse support in games.
• Beginnings of new state management in Direct3D.
• Improved audio and font support on Mac OS.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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