Hexley the platypus is the mascot of the operating system Darwin.Īffected by the open source concept developers of Apple and the open source community work together for the PowerPC and x86 operating system version. Mac OS X merge therefore the efficiency and stability of UNIX (protected memory area) with the simple usability of Mac OS. Apple supports actively the BSD community, because Darwin is compatibly with the FreeBSD distribution as a reference and takes advance of much open source projects. NeXT has developed the OPENSTEP operating system which was the further development of NEXTSTEP which in turn is based on 4.3 BSD. Mac OS X has beside the Mac OS predecessor his origin in the know how of NeXT technology, taken over by Apple in 1997. The BSD Unix and Mach 3.0 based Kernel connects since the first release in 1999 characteristics of the booth worlds Apple and UNIX. Darwin is Mac OS X without the user interface.
Darwin Darwin is the from Apple named operating system core for Mac OS X.
