Free wine software for linux

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X 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, and Solaris.
Main features:
Binary Compatibility
- Loads Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Windows 3.x and DOS programs and libraries
- Win32 compatible memory layout, exception handling, threads and processes
- Designed for POSIX compatible operatings systems (eg. Linux and FreeBSD)
- ``bug-for-bug compatibility with Windows
Graphics
- X11-based graphics allows remote display to any X terminal
- X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) Fonts
- DirectX support for games (limited Direct3D support)
- Printing via PostScript driver or legacy native Win16 printer drivers
- Enhanced Metafile (EMF) and Windows Metafile (WMF) driver
- Desktop-in-a-box or mixable windows
- Windows MultiMedia (WinMM) layer support with builtin codecs
Allows Windows program to interface with:
- Sound devices via ALSA, OSS, ARTS, JACK, and libaudio etc
- Multi-lingual keyboards and CJK input method support via XIM
- Modems, serial devices
- Networks (TCP/IP and IPX)
- ASPI Scanners
- Windows Tablets via XInput (eg. Wacom)
Wine API
- Designed for source and binary compatibility with Win32 code
- Win32 API test suite to ensure compatibility
- Compilable on a wide range of C compilers
- Permits mixing of Win32 and POSIX code
- Permits mixing of ELF (.so) and PE (.dll/.exe) binaries in one address space
- Win32 compatible header files
- Automatically generated API documentation
- Resource compiler
- Message compiler
- IDL compiler
- extensive Unicode support
- Internationalization -- Wine supports 16 languages
- Built-in debugger and configurable trace messages
- External memory checker support using Valgrind
- Sample programs
Enhancements:
- Direct3D support on top of WGL instead of GLX for better portability.
- Many DirectSound fixes.
- Still more gdiplus functions.
- Many crypt32 improvements.
- Lots of bug fixes.

Kwine is a set of tools for Wine and KDE interoperability.

It includes frontends tools like Kio_Wine, Kfile_wine, Kwine, and kwine_startmenu, and backends like kwinetools and Kwinedcop, which is a gateway for accessing the Wine API using DCOP.

Vin is a web based, wine cellar management application written in PHP. Vin project uses the MySQL database for data storage.
Main features:
- Simple to use, web based menus
- Optional user authentication for logins, with multiple permission levels
- Wine storage and tasting tracking capability with pricing, purchase location, and more!
- Search page with automatic filtering for search criteria
- Easy column sorting for report pages
- "Save-to-Excel" data export function to save your database to a MS Excel spreadsheet
- Automatic Pocket PC support. Use while youre in the winestore!

TkWiCe is a free wine cellar software. As it is written in native Tcl/Tk, youve got a real chance to use it on any operating system with that interpreter on it (you can get Tcl/Tk for any Unix like Mac OS X, Linux, *BSD, AIX, HP-UX or Solaris as well as for PowerPC and Windows).
If you want to get a fast overview about your bottles (perhaps youve got to choose one?), this might be what you are looking for.
If youre more interested in writing intellectual tasting notes take a wordprocessor like LyX or OpenOffice instead. And if 100 points are the most important thing to you, please choose other points of interest than wine (and bestow the saved money). Such things never will be added to this software:
Aims
- Focus is on pleasure, not on charts.
- Function conquers eyecandy.
- Own plain text files for each wine.
- Everything about one wine fits on 1024x768 pixel at once.
- Old computers are new enough.
- No more dependencies than Tcl/Tk (not: operating system).
- Free (means: liberty *and* free of charge).
- Dont replace wine literature (as commercial solutions try).
Enhancements:
- Bugfixes in startup, the cellar book/history window, and the country selection buttons in the main window.

jToDoList project is a sophisticated ToDo List written in Java. It is meant to be compatible with ToDoList from AbstractSpoon for Windows.

Background

While being very happy with ToDoList from AbstractSpoon when using Windows I did want to be able to manage my List also under Linux.

After trying to get ToDoList running with wine - it didnt work at all - I startet writing an simple GUI that would be able to edit the XML-Files.