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Darwin

Darwin is the primary foundation for Mac OS X. Everything in the OS is built overtop of this technology. Its based on Free BSD Unix. It combines a number of different technologies including the MACH 3.0 kernel, support for different file systems, and integrated networking. It allows OS X programmers the ability to port Unix/Linux apps to OS X as well as kernel extensions all using Darwin.

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