Community Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine works on most popular Intel Unixes, including Linux , FreeBSD , and Solaris .
Wine comes with complete sources, documentation and examples and is freely redistributable.
Wine Features Wabi and Twin features. The Wine project started in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Bob Amstadt was the original coordinator, but turned it over fairly early on to Alexandre Julliard, who has run it ever since. The newsgroup was created in July 1994. Over the years, ports for other Unixes have been added, along with support for Win32 as Win32 applications became popular.