Short Overview: Current State of Mesa and OpenGL on Linux

[ Thanks to liquidat
for this link. ]

“Graphics in Linux has several problems and issues: first of all
there is only Intel providing real free graphics drivers–but Intel
does not build high-end graphics software. Second, Microsoft did
its usual monopoly homework, and everyone talks about DirectX
10–it becomes harder to port graphics apps between Windows and
Linux because on Windows you most certainly want to use DirectX.
Third there is OpenGL itself: the development stagnated for quite
some time and the current OpenGL API does not support all the new
cool hardware things out there. Fourth, and that is something I
realized just few hours ago, the OpenGL implementation for Linux,
Mesa, does only provide an OpenGL implementation for Version
1.5–although OpenGL 2.0 was introduced almost three years ago.

“The first problem might see changes in the future: Nvidia
always provided advanced graphics drivers for the Linux community,
and AMD at least said it would like to solve issues somehow…”

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