wine users - Sep 2010 - Direct3D natively on Linux through Gallium?

I have just read from Phoronix that Gallium is going to support native directx
on Linux.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_gallium3d_d3d11&num=1
Is it really possible?
Is this true?

Was going to ask the same question. And i quote:

"In fact, today a new Gallium3D state tracker was pushed into Mesa and
it's perhaps the most interesting state tracker for this open-source
graphics driver architecture yet. It's a state tracker that exposes
Microsoft's DirectX 10/11 API on Linux! And it's already working and can
be hooked into Wine!"

The way it reads it suggests that can help wine with the DX10/11 Api. It sounds
at it could accelerate wine by a full year. 1.3.3 is great and i dont even use
windows, not even for playing which was my LAST "excuse" of using
windows for "something". But with this, if it is true, i think a lot
more people wont be seeing or missing that other OS  [Laughing]

If it is really true, it is the best thing that I heard in the latest open
source advances in all the times.
Gaming is the only thing that is really missing on Linux.
If it become true, we will be able to fill this gap an strike against Microsoft
monopoly.

aydos <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>
>If you are right then what a shame. I jumped and rejoiced when I read this
on phoronix.com yesterday. I love Linux and
>want to run it so badly, but I am a huge gamer. I would say that 95% of the
time I am using my pc it is to game. I might
>browse the web at the same time and what not, but I am gaming. It really
makes dual boot not an option for me since I
>might once a month on a blue moon boot into linux, because I am not playing
a game that day.
First and formost:  Linux (and UNIX before it) was NEVER designed as a
'gaming platform'.  It was designed for use in the server environment,
where it excels, much more than its Windows Server counterparts.

Second:  If we want to see Linux as a 'gaming platform' a major paradigm
shift is going to have to happen within the Linux community and I don't
really see this happening.  The biggest hurdle is the 'opening of the
wallet' habit that Linux users will have to adopt.  Companies like
Electronic Arts do not exist to produce free software, they have people called
stockholders that they have to answer to.

Third:  Games like QuakeII were ported to Linux, MacOSX and other operating
systems long after their commercial viability was gone.  However, this does not
preclude the Linux Community from creating a game based on the still viable
engines that power games like HalfLife2, Doom3 and the like.  Once it is shown
there is a lively gaming community, then maybe the commercial folks will build a
'pay as you go' game or maybe a full blown commercial version.  Of
course, their investment has to be protected as it takes time and money to do so
and they want a return (many times over if possible) for their investment.
>
>Maybe the day will come that I can have the reliability, speed, and safety
of Linux combined with my love for gaming.
>
When that day comes, Linux will not be as safe as it is today.  MacOSX is now
coming under attack due to its growing popularity and use in offices and
government.

Please keep in mind that there has been the old Chicken and Egg thing going on:

Customer:  Why don't you make <insert non Windows OS here> programs?
Developer:  We would if more copies of <insert non Windows OS here> were
in use.
Customer:  We would use <insert non Windows OS here> if you made programs
for it.
Developer:  We would not return our investment of time, money, people becasuse
there is not enough demand for
programs written for <insert non Windows OS here>.

This goes round-and-round.

At the present time Wine is seen as a 'bridge' to get people to run the
Windows version of programs on Linux.  That shortcuts the argument but then we
get to:

Developer:  Our program runs on Wine, adequate for normal use, thus we don't
have to build a <insert non Windows OS here> version and have to deal with
two or three code bases.

Thus we have a third problem.  If Wine gets that good, there will be LESS
Linux/UNIX programming and not more.  This will also increase the stranglehold
that Microsoft has on the computing world.  There is a report that one company
actually abandoned their efforts to bring a Linux version of their program to
the world because their Windows version worked under Wine better than their
Windows version.

Ending this saga is that Wine will improve in quality as long as the API does
not do a major move with any further release of Windows.  Thus the incentive to
build Linux versions may actually decrease.  This is my opinion and I have lived
through this with several different Operating Systems.

And this is the rant of some small person, living somewhere in the deserts of
the United States but is based on thirty years plus of working with computers,
programs and watching the rise and fall of various computing platforms.

I do hope that Wine, with age, continues to improve.  This keeps the thorn in
the side of the folks in Redmond and keeps Windows and Linux from becoming
stagant.

James McKenzie