NVIDIA Delivers Beta OpenGL 3.0 Linux Driver

[bulletxt]

this is what I call a serious company.

[deanjo]

Wow, first response!
Quite a fast response from nVidia (for Linux that is).
Does this mean that opengl2.1 will be a little faster with the new exposure of ARB_vertex_array_object, ARB_framebuffer_object, and ARB_half_float_vertex extensions?

EDIT: It seems this still has the old 2D regression (the one affecting lines and circles in gtkperf)

The OpenGL 3 tree branched off of the 177 tree at build 61, as indicated by the 177.61.xx version numbers, so it contains some, but not all of the features and fixes added in the 177.80 drivers.

[Xanikseo]

Wow, first response!
Quite a fast response from nVidia (for Linux that is).
Does this mean that opengl2.1 will be a little faster with the new exposure of ARB_vertex_array_object, ARB_framebuffer_object, and ARB_half_float_vertex extensions?

EDIT: It seems this still has the old 2D regression (the one affecting lines and circles in gtkperf)

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Delivers Beta OpenGL 3.0 Linux Driver

The OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 specification were released back in August during SIGGRAPH 2008. Just days later NVIDIA had delivered a beta driver for Windows that added OpenGL 3.0 functionality, but Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris users were left in the dark. Two months later though NVIDIA has now published a beta Linux driver that implements most of the latest GL/GLSL specification.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13009