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Mesa 10.2 Improves Linux's Open-Source Graphics Drivers
An anonymous reader writes "Mesa 10.2 was introduced this week as the new shining example of what open source graphics (and open source projects in general) are capable of achieving. The latest release of this often underrepresented open source graphics driver project has many new OpenGL and driver features including a number of new OpenGL 4 extensions. The reverse-engineered Freedreno driver now poses serious competition to Qualcomm's Adreno driver, an OpenMAX implementation was added for Radeon video encoding support, Intel Broadwell support now works better, the software rasterizer supports OpenGL 3.3, and many other changes are present."
While I'm pleased to see a longstanding opensource project is alive & well, I'm not sure if it's really relevant anymore.
Slashdotter, what say you?
I would say that you are clueless idiot who likes the smell of his own verbal excrement on the internet. The entire open source Linux OpenGL stack is based on Mesa. I am using it right now, haven't touched the annoying binary drivers for years. Works more than well enough for what I need.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.