DX11 Coming To Linux (But Not XP)

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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no

[RWarrior(fobw)]

not better than microsoft. microsoft has merely made a well-announced, long-planned strategic decision to stop supporting XP on new products. this isn't a surprise, and anyone who complains about it needs to stop living in 2001.

Re:Response to rampant speculation

[commodore64_love]

I haven't tried WINE lately but in the Ubuntu 2009.0 days, it couldn't even run my Netscape Dialing program or the included Web Accelerator properly (it crashed). If it can't run something that simple, I don't trust it to run MS Word properly either.

And it looks like it's time to get rid of my XP machine. Which is a shame because it still works perfectly but if it can run various DX11 videos that I download, then it will be frustrating to operate.

MS is adopting the Apple tactics (don't support the 3rd to last OS, thereby forcing people to spend money on upgrades).

Re:Seems sensible enough

[KarmaMB84]

You should probably tell Microsoft to stop calling it DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 then....

Re:Response to rampant speculation

[commodore64_love]

I imitate you
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Re:Response to rampant speculation

[BitZtream]

The latest Linux kernel is available for free, and can be upgraded without any compatibility issues or changes to the UI.

Without any compatibility issues? Uhm, no, sorry. Free yes, 'upgraded without any compatibility issues', no. Thats a retarded statement, pretty much any kernel change of any usefulness requires upgrading system libraries at the bare minimum. I'm fairly sure you've never had any software development experience. Pretty much EVERY change you make in a kernel causes compatibility problems if theres actually software written to use it. You can think what you want, but binary compatibility tends to be rather difficult and its an area that pretty much every free OS completely sucks at, hence the practically non-existent amount of commercial software written for an impossible to hit target. You're confusing minor kernel patches with major kernel upgrades at best.

The odds that anyone would be interested in DX11 on Linux and simultaneously have a good reason not to upgrade their kernel are rather slim.

I'd be willing to bet actually that the number of people interested in DX11 on Linux is considerably lower than those on XP.

Not to mention that the whole kernel is open-source, so if you really wanted to make it work you could probably backport the necessary DRI changes to an older kernel.

Which is roughly as likely to happen as my fixing Windows XP without the source. Clearly you don't understand that source code is only one part of the equation. It doesn't just magically combine itself and work like you want it too with the source. When will you fanboy stop making such retarded statements. The source IS NOT EVERYTHING, it actually takes someone putting some work into doing something with that source. It really isn't magical beans.

You can't upgrade an XP system to a Vista or Windows 7 kernel with DX11 support while leaving the rest of the system intact

What? Seriously what do you mean? You're saying that you can upgrade Linux ... but not really upgrade it at the same time? But you can't do that with XP? Please explain how they are different?