OpenGL under linux

The question is: What are the OS requirements to provide hardware OpenGL in a linux OS?

Research beginnings

• It looks like MESA is a software renderer and does not use hardware GL. ref

implement OpenGL in the fbcon backend, using Mesa's miniglx (OpenGL over the framebuffer). This is limited to DRI-supported video cards but works fine and is hardware-accelerated, get Stephane Marchesin's glSDL patch

Links

• Very extensive and practical OpenGL documentation
• GLEW detects what GL extentions are available
• Mesh viewer, some nice pics and example models on this page
• Stephane MARCHESIN good GL links