Darwin (operating system)

Darwin using the GNOME environment

Darwin is a free, open source, Unix operating system made by Apple Inc. It is named after Charles Darwin. Darwin is used as the base of macOS, but it cannot run macOS programs by itself.

Other derived projects

Window Maker in XDarwin

• XQuartz is the X Window System of macOS (Darwin). XDarwin, before the introduction of Apple's X11.app.

Darwin (operating System) Media

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  Simplified history of Unix-like operating systems

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  Diagram of macOS architecture