OpenDarwin HOWTOS

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• OpenDarwin - Information about the OpenDarwin project.

  • CVS HOWTO - How to check sources out of CVS.
  • Committer's Guide - A guide for OpenDarwin CVS committers.

• System Administration - Tutorials for Darwin system administration.

  • Network Configuration - A description of how to configure networking for Mac OS X and Darwin.
  • NetInfo - How to administer NetInfo--Darwin's database of users, groups, hosts, printers, and more.
  • StartupItems - How to write startup items for SystemStarter on Mac OS X and Darwin.
  • Using Samba - Information about using the Samba implementation of the SMB protocol on Darwin.

• Building and Packaging - Information about building and packaging for Darwin.

  • Building Darwin - A description of how Darwin 1.2.1 through 1.4.1 were built.
  • Building XNU - A description of how to build Darwin's XNU kernel.
  • Packaging UNIX for DarwinGuidelines for packaging UNIX utilities for distribution on Darwin.

• Documentation Tutorials - Tutoritals for writing Darwin Documentation.

  • Darwin Doc HOWTO - A tutorial for writing Darwin Documentation HOWTO articles.
  • Darwin Doc HOWTO - A template Darwin Documentation HOWTO article.
  • Man Page HOWTO - A tutorial for writing UNIX manual pages on Darwin.

• Kernel Tutorials - Tutorials for developing kernel extensions.

  • Kernel Debugging - How to remotely attach to a paniced kernel and start debugging.
  • About KEXTs
  • Hello Debugger
  • Hello IOKit
  • Hello KEXT
  • KEXT Dependencies
  • Loading KEXTs
  • Packaging KEXTs

• Darwin x86 - Information related to Darwin on the x86 platform.

  • Booting on x86 - A description of the booting process of Darwin on x86.
  • Screen Resolution on x86 - How to set the screen resolution and bit depth on Darwin/x86.

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