Both are features of graphics cards, games support one or the other usually, some support both depending on the design company, if the game runs on more then just windows it may support OGL on the windows version, but not always as in the case of Mac ports of some games, where the port comes out much after the orriginal release.
If you ask me game companies are shooting themselves in the foot a bit by not going for straight OGL so they can support any OS without much hassle. These days Apple doesn't use PPC cpus anymore, which is a shame for those of us that used them for their intended design, as for most demanding tasks it kicks the crap out of x86, but I guess you can always get a Sun Sparc station or an IBM Powerstation workhorse comp, but it's jst too much more exspensive...
but I digress, give OS X and Linux users a hand and tell game makers you'd like more ports and native OGL support. It's getting boring to me to have most of the OGL games that run on Linux are FPS games, I'd love some more varity with more decent MMOs, RPGs and whatnot, cause yet another doom like game just gets old...
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