Mesa 9.0 Released With Open Source OpenGL 3.1 Drivers

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.

Mesa Same As Me

[smittyoneeach]

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

More importantly...

[DMJC]

More importantly... Nouveau is starting to become performance competitive with the Nvidia Binary Blob. As Mesa adds features and rapidly catches upto the closed drivers, it'll surpass them for performance if not features. The time is coming quickly when the drivers built into Linux will be better than the official ones.

Still Alive

[Maintenance Goof]

Go find a Linux driver. I think I prefer to stay Windows. Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Mesa... THAT WAS A JOKE. Haha. FAT CHANCE. Anyway,Windows 7 is great. It's so delicious and moist.