glextension let's you see what your current OpenGL setup is capable of in terms of OpenGL Version, Renderer, Vendor and Extensions. Especially the latter is pretty important and that's where the main focus of this application lies on. It presents sort of a tree-list of a extensions grouped by corporation or institution that are currently available on your system:
Apart from that you can read the extension's specification either by double-clicking on the extension name in the tree-list or by using the auto-completion combo-box on the Specifications tab.
Get the build dependencies (Ubuntu/Debian way):
sudo apt-get install libqt4-opengl-dev qt4-qmake libqtgui4 libqtwebkit-dev
Check out the source from Github
git clone https://github.com/kwk/glxtension.git
Create a shadow-build directory and navigate to it
mkdir glxtension/build
cd glxtension/build
Create Makefiles
qmake ..
Run Make
make
Run the application
./glxtension