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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-08

Bottles

Bridges the gap between Linux and Windows software

Bottles enables users to run Windows applications on Linux through sandboxed and reproducible environments built on top of Wine and advanced transpilation technologies. The upcoming major release, Bottles Next, introduces atomic and isolated installation of individual applications within shared environments, ensuring reliability in critical scenarios. The project focuses on transparency, long-term reproducibility and user control, improving installation traceability and supply chain trust by making every step verifiable and repeatable.

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).