Where Things Fall Short: Eight Shortcomings Of Mesa 8.0

[Plombo]

Michael,

The Nouveau nvc0 (Fermi) driver in Mesa 8.0 supports GL3, same as softpipe and Intel Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge.

[RSpliet]

LibTXC_DXTN

Perhaps you should have told your readers that you can simply get S3TC compression on Fedora by installing this package? Of course, only if your countries laws allow you to, which I think is no trouble for most people.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Where Things Fall Short: Eight Shortcomings Of Mesa 8.0

While Mesa 8.0 has a lot to like about it from advertised OpenGL 3.0 support to performance improvements and new Gallium3D features, there are also several shortcomings of this major Mesa release for open-source graphics drivers...

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