__/ [ Hadron Quark ] on Monday 21 August 2006 11:08 \__
> ws <see.sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33812
>>
>> So what does this have to do with Linux? There is the matter of
>> OpenGL. Now if Intel support for OpenGL is in the hardware, guess what
>> would be the preferred platform for OpenGL development under Linux and
>> other OSS systems?
>
> That is quite interesting. What we reall need, of course, is to hear
> about leading games manufacturers like Valve hiring openGL programmers -
> then we would see a huge boost in Linux uptake.
I came across the following yesterday.
http://www.petitiononline.com/hllinux1/petition-sign.html?
But be sure that someone will always sabotage the acceptance of OpenGL.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista
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| In the current implementation (as of 2005-09-22) of the OpenGL
| graphics library in Windows Vista - a soon to be released new version
| of the Microsoft Windows operating system, OpenGL is not a stand
| alone library. Instead it functions as a wrapper around DirectX,
| and is frozen to the vanilla version of OpenGL 1.4.
|
| This means that OpenGL applications in Windows Vista will,
| most likely, suffer from severe performance loss, that, when an
| OpenGL driver is loaded, the Windows operating system will have
| odd behaviours and that future versions of OpenGL will not affect
| Windows Vista platform. This would result in less developers
| actively supporting OpenGL, and as a result, less applications
| written which are easy to port to another platform or easy to
| maintain.
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