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Arylia does have a few features that GD doesn't, but they are mostly little things -- not major features like batch gallery building or video support.
For instance, GD's template system doesn't support a single identifier for all thumbs, meaning that a template always has a fixed number of thumbnails. In Arylia you can create galleries using a single template that just get bigger if you have more images.
Another example is pruning -- nation-x may be planning to add this, but I read at one point that it doesn't currently allow users to prune a large set of images evenly, to get an even distribution of images from a wide selection.
There are also other factors, like the fact that Arylia can run under safe mode (though this isn't easy), runs fine with magic quotes enabled, does not require cron jobs to install, and is cheaper than GD.
There's no question, though, that if you need a large quantity of galleries made every day, or if you're dealing with movie galleries, GD is far superior to Arylia 2.
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