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Open Software in a Commercial Operating System  - http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/papers/FREENIX99.html  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.  Fink  - http://fink.sourceforge.net/  A package manager for Darwin based on the Debian apt-get set of tools. 2900+ ports listed.  The Darwin Collection  - http://www.ptf.com/tdc/  A set of nearly 2000 open source packages ported to Darwin with a focus on scientific applications. A CD distribution is available.  XDarwin: X Windows on Darwin and Mac OS X  - http://www.xdarwin.org/  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.  HMUG Man Pages  - http://www.hmug.org/man/  An exhaustive list of Darwin man pages.  Hexley the Platypus  - http://www.hexley.com/  The mascot of the Darwin OS.  OpenDarwin  - http://www.opendarwin.org/  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.  Darwin Operating System  - http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/  The official Apple Darwin home page contains the current release, full source code, modification instructions, wish list, FAQ, contributors, and links.  The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments  - http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/papers/USENIX_2000/  A paper on the design issues Apple faced when they ported the Mac OS to a semantically different Unix base (Darwin).  The GNU-Darwin Distribution  - http://www.gnu-darwin.org/  A Unix distribution which focuses on the porting of free software to Darwin and Mac OS X.  Getting Started With Darwin/x86  - http://darwin.monkeyvoodoo.net/  A helpful guide to getting and installing Darwin on an x86 system.  Darwin Developer Documentation  - http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Darwin.html  Programming in the Darwin kernel and information on the differences between Darwin and other BSDs.  DarwinPorts  - http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/  Goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on a Darwin, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, or Linux system.  MetaPkg  - http://www.metapkg.org/  An alliance of Darwin packaging groups Fink, Gentoo, and DarwinPorts to facilitate delivery of freely available software to Mac OS X.