## Mesa

Brian Paul wrote a free open-source implementation of OpenGL called Mesa. The name has no hidden meaning, it just sounds nice. The original versions of Mesa only did software rendering. Recent versions of Mesa have had accelerated backends for Glide, DRI, etc. 

The Mesa website is at [[http://www.mesa3d.org/|http://www.mesa3d.org/]]. 



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