The Wine project has been going since 1993, and has got to the point where a large percentage of windows programs run well in linux.
A perennial question is when 1.0 will be released, excitingly it looks like this will be sooner than we thought - as seen from their mailing list today:
Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at ??????> writes:
> Just noticed that the dates attached to the versions on
> http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan are not correct.
>
> 0.9.58 came out on March 21st.
>
> Does this mean we still stick to May 9th or do we stick to 0.9.61 as being
> 1.0.0.rc1?
We should stick to May 9th, we'll just have to wait for this date to
coincide with a release. If my calculations are right this should be
release 0.9.218 on May 9th, 2014. Hopefully we can clear the 1.0 bug
list by then.
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Alexandre Julliard