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OpenGL Library Mesa 11.0 Brings Open Source OpenGL 4

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jj110888 writes: Mesa, the open source implementation of OpenGL, has just announced version 11.0. This adds support for the amdgpu driver, fixes for non-Windows platforms, new OpenGL ES extensions supported, and more. Most notable is the support for all extensions in OpenGL 4.1 by the radeonsi and nvc0 drivers, and support for extensions added in OpenGL 4.2 by the i965 driver. This brings the OpenGL version supported by core Mesa from 3.3 to 4.2, five and a half years after OpenGL 4 was released. Mesamatrix gives the status of which OpenGL extensions are supported by which open source driver. Vulkan, on the otherhand, will have an open source driver once the spec is released.

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  1. Re: Yeah for FLOSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not sure what you are getting at. The alternative is using closed source, which honestly is not a real alternative.

  2. Can I jump ship yet? by RenHoek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hate that Linux has such bad graphical card support. Games are the only thing that are keeping me on the Windows platform. I think it really is the only thing that is keeping the world from a "Linux on the desktop" utopia.

    1. Re:Can I jump ship yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If you switch to Linux full-time you'll find a lot more to hate.