English to Japanese Tech/Engineering Computers: Software

Xgl on its own isn't exactly new -- work started around 2004, and I even mentioned it along with other upcoming technologies in issue 98, but thanks to XXXXXX's most recent round of work, it's solid enough to use on a daily basis if you don't mind a little instability. It uses OpenGL to do all of its drawing, automatically giving it high performance for actions like compositing on OpenGL hardware. The only catch is that, for now at least, the only mature way to get accelerated OpenGL on Linux is using X itself, so for now Xgl runs on top of a standard Xorg server.

Along with Xgl, XXXXXX has built Compiz, a ***combined window*** and compositing manager that puts Xgl's high-speed window compositing to great use. OpenGL-accelerated window compositing is part of what makes Mac OS X so impressive to watch, so there are a lot of OS X-style effects on offer.