From: Michael Cox (mcox_at_cdinc.net)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 18:26:23 PST
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On Friday 06 February 2004 12:48 pm, vertigo_at_email.arizona.edu wrote:
> OS X has changed a lot
> of that to a large degree, simply because its a UNIX system. I can run
> X-Windows, which means I can compile nearly anything available for Linux
> systems.
I think the "OS" in "OS X" stands for Open Source... ;-)
> In fact, the only core differences I see between Windows
> systems and Apples is the availability of Games. For many, many people
> gaming is important, and unfortunately the gaming industry has never really
> embraced Apple (at least in modern times). that might be changing, however.
> I don't know if anyone here has ever played Halo, but that particular gem
> of a game was in production for OS X BEFORE anything else. It wasn't until
> Microsoft got their grubby mits into Bungie that it became an XBox-first
> game.
And the fastest game servers run on Linux (and so should be easily potable to
OS X)...even games without Linux clients often have a Linux server available.
mc
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