Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Feb 2006 12:22 UTC, submitted by Rahul

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I might well be wrong, but I understand from the Fedora site that AIGLX's purpose is to make it easier to "use GL effects", while XGL tries to do accelerate all X graphics output via GL.
For instance, GTL+ talks to Cairo, and Cairo would talk to X via Render in AIGLX, with no 3D intervention, while it would directly output OpenGL calls via Glitz in XGL.
If this is true, both would allow funky accelerated window managers, but XGL would accelerate Gnome as well. Again, I might be wrong: this is all VERY confusing.
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From the AIGLX wiki, this is not my understanding, AIGLX and XGL are said to be functionnaly equivalent.
When both are finished, they'll do the same thing, but the path to get there and the resulting architecture will be different.
What do you think XGL can do that AIGLX can't?