Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Registered Member #727 Joined: [ 10:25 ] [ 12 Nov 2004 ]
nebandon, all your facts are wrong. Mac OS has 6.2% market share according to recent surveys. However, it is very weak in the server area. Tunes existed long on the Mac before the iTunes Music Store was opened. Mac OS is not based on Linux. Going into details here takes time and is confusing, so be aware of that before going on.
It all centers around UNIX, on of the first and most flexible operating systems of all times. UNIX is composed out of thousands of parts, like a kernel, compilers, tools, a GUI and so on. All of these parts can be exchanged, and consequently, there are thousands of operating systems that share UNIX ideas, but do not actually use any direct part of UNIX, instead relying on their own pieces.
There are four important players that we have to keep in mind here: GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix (that's called a recursive acronym). It's a project to develop an entire open-source UNIX. They have most things except a kernel. Then we have Linux, a project that only makes a kernel. Most things that are called Linux use GNU tools, Linux kernel and thousands of other software from around the world. Whether you call them Linux or GNU/Linux is not important, except to the guys at GNU.
Then we have BSD, another attempt at making a completely open-source Unix, but based on original UNIX source code. They actually have a full OS working. Finally we have Mach, another project to create a new, much cooler Kernel.
Mac OS X is mainly based on BSD, has a kernel that is a weird mix of BSD's kernel and Mach, uses many GNU tools and has lots of non-open-source software by Apple on top.
So Mac OS X is not based on Linux at all, and anyone saying this is wrong.