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Compatibility Layers

Software that provides a compatibility layer by translating Windows API calls into POSIX-compliant calls, enabling Windows applications to run on Unix-like systems without full hardware emulation.

19 projects

91,511 contributors

$1B

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Issues found on WSL

Contributors

33,338

Organizations

6,246

Software value

$4.9M

NixOS

NixOS is a declarative, reproducible Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager, where the entire system configuration—including packages, services, and settings—is defined in a single configuration file.

Contributors

29,801

Organizations

6,474

Software value

$195M

Proton

Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

Contributors

15,271

Organizations

2,342

Software value

$57M

Bottles

Run Windows software and games on Linux

Contributors

3,677

Organizations

427

Software value

$891K

DOSBox-X

DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project

Contributors

1,950

Organizations

189

Software value

$98M

Winetricks

Winetricks is an open-source helper script that automates the installation of various Windows software dependencies and libraries in Wine, making it easier to run Windows applications on Unix-like systems. It manages common runtime components, DirectX DLLs, fonts, and other Windows components needed by applications.

Contributors

1,565

Organizations

309

Software value

$1.3M

vkd3d-proton

Fork of VKD3D. Development branches for Proton's Direct3D 12 implementation.

Contributors

1,300

Organizations

185

Software value

$8.2M

Box64

Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64, RV64 and LoongArch Linux devices

Contributors

1,206

Organizations

186

Software value

$18M

MXE (M cross environment)

MXE (M cross environment)

Contributors

1,176

Organizations

264

Software value

$7.1M

MSYS2 Runtime

Our friendly fork of Cygwin 💖 https://cygwin.org 💖 see the wiki for details

Contributors

708

Organizations

158

Software value

$38M

Cosmopolitan Libc

build-once run-anywhere c library

Contributors

704

Organizations

237

Software value

$135M

ReactOS

ReactOS is an open source operating system that aims to be binary-compatible with Windows applications and drivers. It implements Windows-compatible architecture to run Windows software natively, providing a free alternative to Microsoft Windows.

Contributors

538

Organizations

120

Software value

$379M

MinGW-w64

(Unofficial) Mirror of mingw-w64-code

Contributors

277

Organizations

68

Software value

$93M

Cygwin

Mirror of Cygwin repository at https://cygwin.com/. DO NOT SUBMIT PULL REQUESTS. Read https://cygwin.com/contrib.html and submit patches via the mailing list cygwin-patches AT cygwin DOT com.

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Steam for Linux

Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Wine

Wine is a compatibility layer that enables running Windows applications on Unix-like operating systems. It translates Windows API calls to POSIX calls, allowing users to run Windows software without requiring Microsoft Windows.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Wine TKG

The wine-tkg build systems, to create custom Wine and Proton builds

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