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DX11 Coming To Linux (But Not XP)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the speaking-directly-to-you dept.

gr8_phk writes "As reported over at Phoronix, the Direct X 11 API now has an open source implementation on top of Gallium3d which should ease porting of games to Linux with or without Wine. While still in its infancy, you can see where this is heading. All this while Microsoft hasn't offered DX11 for their own aging WindowsXP. Could it be that Linux may soon support this Microsoft API better than Microsoft itself?"

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  1. Uh...so? by nashv · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In other news, DirectX 11 is not being offered for MS-DOS,Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11....oh noes - does Microsoft not care about their customers at all?

    At some point, backward compatibility doesn't need to go that far back

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    Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
  2. In one word... by chrisdotwood · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No