Look here http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ and
http://www.opendarwin.org/
The base is pretty much a linux but as has been mentioned before, they
have plenty of hardware-specific code and their cocoa which
realistically only works on their gear, so don't expect to run mac
software on anything other than a mac. Going the other direction, if you
open up a terminal window on a mac (though thats something the mac users
I know would *never* do on their own), you'll see the familiar bash
prompt, and you can download a great deal of linux source code and
compile it and run it even, without too much trouble. X11 applications
can run on a mac, though from what I've seen its kinda cobbled together
like the x emulators for windows, so the fonts and cursors and such
won't act like the rest of your system (this was most noted in relation
to the mac version of openoffice which hadn't had the code added to make
it talk natively to the cocoa interface though they may have finished
that part by now).
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