[NTLUG:Discuss] GLX/OpenGL Presentation Available

[Steve Baker]

Chris Cox wrote:
> 
> Just click on the link on the calendar page....

Nice performance graphs - I had no idea the G200 performance
was so close to windoze.  I wonder how 3Dfx and nVidia are
doing?

Anyway, I wanted to share this link:

  http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/ABI/

...which is the standards document that's about to be
finalized in the next couple of days to cover the ABI
(Applications Binary Interface) for OpenGL under Linux.
It's been agreed between the various Mesa groups, the
commercial OpenGL-for-Linux implementors such as XiG
and Metro-X, and various hardware and games companies
(...and me :-)

It clears up a lot of the uncertainty and messiness
that there has been with OpenGL/Mesa being installed
in haphazardly different ways and with ad-hoc 'extras'
like some of Mesa's fxMesa* calls.

Anyway, if you are contemplating writing programs
using OpenGL/Mesa under Linux, this document is a
'must see' kinda thing.

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