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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:15:01 am | by GianPerrone | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Tuesday, July 9, 2002 5:57:29 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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As far as linux is concerned, Xfree86 has supported OpenGL pretty well since the 3.3.x series, and the newer 4.x series has great support.
Mesa is the name of the open source OpenGL software implementation, while some card manufacturers have release specifications that allow developers to write drivers to take advantage of hardware acceleration. Other manufacturers, notably NVidia, have binary-only graphics card drivers.
see [HowToNvidiaOpenGLConfiguration] and [HowToLinuxGLQuakeWorldminiHOWTO] for specific details and some more background to how GL works with [XFree86].
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+For anyone interested in programming using OpenGL, I highly recommend either [SDL] or [GLUT]. It saves you a lot of time and energy learning the intracacies of your particular platform and makes your program portable.
