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Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification. -OpenGL is a high-level programming library for interactive 3D graphics. +OpenGL is a programming library for writing interactive 3D applications. See the OpenGL website for more information.
-Mesa 5.0.x supports the OpenGL 1.4 specification. +Mesa 5.x supports the OpenGL 1.4 specification.
-Yes. Specifically, Mesa serves as the OpenGL core for the XFree86/DRI -OpenGL drivers. See the DRI website for -more information. +Yes. Specifically, Mesa serves as the OpenGL core for the open-source +XFree86/DRI OpenGL drivers. See the DRI +website for more information.
There have been other hardware drivers for Mesa over the years (such as @@ -53,34 +53,40 @@ the 3Dfx Glide/Voodoo driver, an old S3 driver, etc) but the DRI drivers are the modern ones.
--Commercial, hardware-accelerated OpenGL implementations are available for -many operating systems today. +Hardware-accelerated OpenGL implementations are available for most popular +operating systems today. Still, Mesa serves at least these purposes:
-You don't! The Mesa source code lives inside the XFree86/DRI source tree -and gets compiled into the individual DRI driver modules. +You don't! A copy of the Mesa source code lives inside the XFree86/DRI source +tree and gets compiled into the individual DRI driver modules. If you try to install Mesa over an XFree86/DRI installation, you'll lose -hardware rendering (because Mesa's libGL.so is different than the XFree86 -libGL.so). +hardware rendering (because stand-alone Mesa's libGL.so is different than +the XFree86 libGL.so).
The DRI developers will incorporate the latest release of Mesa into the