Mesa Drivers with OpenGL 3 Support

[CreamCorn]

Great news for those running Mesa Graphics Drivers. Version 8 of the driver has just been released and for the first time, those running Fedora or any other Linux distribution with Intel HD Graphics will now have access to OpenGL 3!

http://www.mesa3d.org

[bioinfornatics]

I do not understand why i am always with openGL 2 with mesa 8.0.2 (amd series 46xxHD )

$ glxinfo|egrep -A2 "rendering|OpenGL" ; 
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
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OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV730
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_multisample, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, 
    GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_copy_texture,