Di recente è approdato un'importante aggiornamento di Mesa (librerie per il supporto 3D) le quali hanno introdotto diverse ottimizzazioni riguardanti principalmente Intel in KWin.

For those users of the open-source Linux graphics drivers, if you're not a habitual Mesa Git follower, go forth and download Mesa 9.1 now that it's been officially released.

Mesa 9.0.2 was officially released today. It's just the usual bug-fixing and stable changes that were back-ported from Git master.

Il più importante chip-maker del mondo prosegue alacremente nel suo lavoro sullo stack grafico Linux. La scorsa settimana, Intel ha abilitato di default il supporto alla S3 Texture Compression, un algoritmo di compressione che fa parte delle specifiche della serie OpenGL 3.x.

With Mesa 9.0 having been released last night and in continuing in a similar manner to eight good things about Mesa 8.0 and eight shortcomings about Mesa 8.0 from its release, let's start off with nine good things about Mesa 9.0.

After facing some delays, Mesa 9.0 was released on Monday afternoon as the latest bi-annual feature release of this important open-source OpenGL driver stack. This is also the first release that supports OpenGL 3.1, albeit the hardware support is currently limited to the Intel DRI driver.

The GStreamer Conference 2012 videos have been uploaded for those that weren't out at this technical event recently in San Diego. The Intel Linux presentation is arguably the most interesting talk.

Intel's Mesa driver for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge graphics are now officially compliant against the Khronos OpenGL ES 2.0 specification.

Ci sono buone notizie dalla XDC2011, la X.org Developer Conference tenutasi a Chicago tra il 12 e il 14 settembre e dedicata al celebre server grafico il cui sviluppo continua senza sosta, restando in attesa di vedere all’opera quello che è da molti considerato il suo successore, ovvero Wayland.

Mesa 7.11 has been branched in preparation for its release next month. What this means is that now Mesa Git master is for Mesa 7.12, which will be the graphics code in-development until next January when it's either released as 7.12, or Mesa 8.0 should the OpenGL 3.0 support land by year's end.