<H1>Downloading</H1>
<p>
-Last development release: <b>6.5</b>
+Primary Mesa download site:
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/"
+target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
</p>
<p>
-Last stable release: <b>6.4.2</b>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Primary download site:
-<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3"
-target="_parent">SourceForge</a>
+When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/" target="_parent">here</a>.
</p>
</li>
<li><b>MesaDemos-x.y.z</b> - OpenGL demonstration and test programs.
Most of the programs require GLUT (either the
- <a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut.html"
+ <a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut"
target="_parent">original GLUT by Mark Kilgard</a> or
<a href="http://freeglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">freeglut</a> or
- <a href="http://freeglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">OpenGLUT</a>).
+ <a href="http://openglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">OpenGLUT</a>).
</li>
<li><b>MesaGLUT-x.y.z</b> - Mark Kilgard's GLUT, easily compiled and used
with Mesa. Plus, other implementation of GLUT for DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc.
package.
</p>
+<p>
+If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages.
+</p>
+
<p>
The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats.
-Other organizations might offer additional package formats.
+Other sites might offer additional package formats.
</p>
<H1>Unpacking</H1>
<h1>Contents</h1>
<p>
-After unpacking you'll have these directories:
+After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
</p>
<pre>
Makefile - top-level Makefile for most systems
src/ - source code for libraries
src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
src/glu - libGLU source code
+src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
src/glw - Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code
</pre>