Wine
This is release 0.9.50 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What's new in this release: Completed I/O completion. Improved user credentials management, including Mac Keychain support. More Valgrinding. Lots of bug fixes.
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Here's how to get DirectX 9.0c on Linux with Wine.
Wine 0.9.49 features new improvements to copy protection and also GLSL is now default. As always, lots of error corrections.
Wine 0.9.48 has been released. New to this version are additional fixes for regression test failures. a more complete cryptnet implementation, WIDL is now able to generate the oleaut32 proxy code and the usual bug fixes.
What's new to this release: A new scheme for OpenGL support in child windows, fixes for regression test failures, a Tahoma replacement font, lots of bug fixes.
"I'm aware there are many open source multimedia tools that will play most audio and video formats on Linux these days but many people have come to like Windows Media player over the years. And while Xine and Mplayer will play most .WMV .WMA files, both of these players use Windows codecs that are copied into your /usr/lib/win32 directory. So if your currently happy using the closed source Windows Media codecs why not use the player as well."
Many improvements to the crypto dlls (should make iTunes work), the usual assortment of Direct3D improvements, a number of fixes to sound support, many more WordPad features and lots of bug fixes.
This is release 0.9.44 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. New in this release: Better heuristics for making windows managed, automatic detection of timezone parameters, improvements to the built-in WordPad, better signatures support in crypt32, still more gdiplus functions and lots of bug fixes.
What's new in this Wine 0.9.43 release: Direct3D support on top of WGL instead of GLX for better portability. Many DirectSound fixes. Still more gdiplus functions. crypt32 improvements and lots of bug fixes.
New to this release is support for activation contexts and side-by-side assemblies, more gdiplus functions, other messaging support in crypt32.dll, many HTTP protocol handling fixes and other bug fixes.
Wine 0.9.40 has been released. New to this release are many MSHTML improvements, a few more sound fixes, Direct3D fixes, lots of bug fixes and another step closer towards 1.0
This is release 0.9.39 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What's new in this release: Many MSHTML improvements. Several improvements to the sound support. A number of Winsock fixes. Several new supported constructs in the IDL compiler. Many Direct3D threading fixes. Lots of bug fixes.
This is release 0.9.38 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What's new: Beginnings of support for copy protection kernel drivers. More MSI automation support. Many 64-bit compilation fixes. A number of OLE fixes and lots of bug fixes.
Wine 0.9.37 was just released, Updates include: MSI automation with JScript/VBScript support, Various MSHTML improvements, The usual assortment of Direct3D fixes, Support for a few more exe protection schemes, and Lots of bug fixes.
Wine 0.9.36 was released today with Midi support in the CoreAudio driver, mixer support in the Alsa driver, a few MSI fixes, implementation for most D3DRM functions, the usual assortment of Direct3D fixes and bug fixes.
