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Mesa 9.0 Released With Open Source OpenGL 3.1 Drivers

Posted by Unknown on from the death-to-directx dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mesa developers released Mesa 9.0 with open-source OpenGL 3.1 driver support. This de facto OpenGL Linux implementation now supports the several year old OpenGL 3.1 specification for Intel hardware while the other drivers are still at OpenGL 3.0 or worse. Other features to Mesa 9.0 include completing MPEG1/MPEG2 video acceleration, early OpenCL support, bug-fixes, and new hardware support." OpenGL 3.1 support is limited to Intel hardware, but at least ATI/AMD hardware supports some of OpenGL 3.1. A few features from OpenGL 4 were also added.

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  1. Mesa Same As Me by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mesa same as me,
    Slashdotty as I can be,
    Loving software free,
    Cleanshaven, save goatee.
    Burma Shave

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. What the hell is Mesa? by westlake · · Score: 5, Informative
    The documentation for Mesa begins --- short and sweet --- with this simple one line description:

    Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification - a system for rendering interactive 3D graphics.

    The Mesa 3D Graphics Library