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Darwin BSD Unix Operating Systems


Darwin

Darwin is a Unix-based open source operating system and forms core of Mac OS X. The Darwin kernel is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies. Darwin runs on both PowerPC-based Macintosh computers and some Intel-based personal computers.

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- The official Apple Darwin home page contains the current release, full source code, modification instructions, wish list, FAQ, contributors, and links.


  • - An exhaustive list of Darwin man pages.
  • - A general overview of the project to bring XFree86 (X11 server) to Darwin and Mac OS X as well as pointers to download and mirror sites.
  • - The mascot of the Darwin OS.
  • - A helpful guide to getting and installing Darwin on an x86 system.
  • - Programming in the Darwin kernel and information on the differences between Darwin and other BSDs.
  • - A set of nearly 2000 open source packages ported to Darwin with a focus on scientific applications. A CD distribution is available.
  • - An alliance of Darwin packaging groups Fink, Gentoo, and DarwinPorts to facilitate delivery of freely available software to Mac OS X.
  • - A package manager for Darwin based on the Debian apt-get set of tools. 2900+ ports listed.
  • - A Unix distribution which focuses on the porting of free software to Darwin and Mac OS X.
  • - A paper written by Wilfredo Sánchez, the then Open Source Engineering Lead at Apple, about the use of open source in commercial software such as Mac OS X Server.
  • - A paper on the design issues Apple faced when they ported the Mac OS to a semantically different Unix base (Darwin).
  • - Goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on a Darwin, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, or Linux system.
  • - A fork of Darwin with the intention of making it easier to commit code and to involve the community in ways difficult with the main Apple branch.


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