Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

The Evolution of Darwin (2002) (2002)

The Evolution of Darwin

At the heart of Mac OS X one finds Darwin, an open source core that integrates a diverse collection of powerful technologies in a robust, flexible architecture. Darwin is like Linux with a day job: By day, it stays discreetly in the background, running Mac OS X. By night, Darwin shows its open source roots: hackable, extensible, and the product of the same community, culture, and traditions that created Apache, sendmail, GNU/Linux, Mozilla, and UNIX itself.

Users are happy, but engineers also get to have their fun.

That’s what it’s all about really, isn’t it?

Published: Thu Sep 12 2002 15:56:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by