There''s plenty of documentation. Take Nehe''s Tutorials for example, as has been pointed out, they make learning OpenGL so overly easy . Here are the links to online version of books you wanted though:
The Red Book
The Blue Book

"Finger to spiritual emptiness underlying everything." -- How a C manual referred to a "pointer to void." --Things People Said

http://www.gdarchive.net/druidgames/

the 1.2.1 spec in pdf form is avialable from the www.opengl.org site (bottom right)

http://members.xoom.com/myBollux

I''d just like to point out 2 misconceptions your haveing.

1) OpenGL is not open source.

2) it did not come from unix/linux programmers. It came from SGI and others (includeing Microsoft).

Isn''t SGI''s implementation open source though?

"Finger to spiritual emptiness underlying everything." -- How a C manual referred to a "pointer to void." --Things People Said

http://www.gdarchive.net/druidgames/

One of my favorite OpenGL book resources is the OpenGL Superbible 2nd ed. You should check that out. The 1st ed. is on the net for free somewhere. I forget where thoug.

-SirKnight

quote: Original post by Null and Void
Isn''t SGI''s implementation open source though?

It might be but if it is I''ve never found it. Then theres mesa, That might be open source? Then again, it''s not officialy OpenGL untill it passes all the conformance tests.

nvidia and ati have released one ogl SDK each. I don''t know if it''s worth a look because the files to download are really too big for a low connection.

nvidia and ati have released one ogl SDK each. I don''t know if it''s worth a look because the files to download are really too big for my slow connection... You can find it on their homepages in the developer section

NVIDIA''s OpenGL SDK:
http://www.nvidia.com/marketing/developer/devrel.nsf/oglFrame?OpenPage

I still have a good old OpenGL .hlp file for Windows, with all functions and stuff. If you want I can put it up for download?

When you download that SDK from nVIDIA you can''t see all demos because they''re made for the GeForce3.

BUT you can add a key to the registry wich will give you the "BoomBoom/Emulator" (check the vendor string ) so you can use the texture shaders, register combiners 2, etc on your GeForce2/1
It''s very slow but it''s nice to see all those GF3 effects

Go to the following key in the registry and add a DWORD with the name NV20Emulate and the value 1.

HKEY localmachine/system/currentcontrolset/class/display/xxxx/nvidia/openGL