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Apple Developer Connection: Darwin Releases Official page with downloads of the various Darwin releases and developer tools. http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/

Darwin Developer Documentation Programming in the Darwin kernel and information on the differences between Darwin and other BSDs. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Darwin.html

Fink A package manager for Darwin based on the Debian apt-get set of tools. 2900+ ports listed. http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Getting Started With Darwin/x86 A guide to getting and installing an old (version 6) Darwin on an x86 system. http://darwin.monkeyvoodoo.net/

The GNU-Darwin Distribution A Unix distribution which focuses on the porting of free software to Darwin and Mac OS X. http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

Hexley the Platypus The mascot of the Darwin OS. http://www.hexley.com/

XDarwin: X Windows on Darwin and Mac OS X 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. http://www.xdarwin.org/

The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments A paper on the design issues Apple faced when they ported the Mac OS to a semantically different Unix base (Darwin). (June 19, 2000) http://www.wsanchez.net/papers/USENIX_2000/

Open Software in a Commercial Operating System 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. (June 10, 1999) http://www.wsanchez.net/papers/FREENIX_1999/