1The UNIX system family tree: Research and BSD 2--------------------------------------------- 3 4First Edition (V1) 5 | 6Second Edition (V2) 7 | 8Third Edition (V3) 9 | 10Fourth Edition (V4) 11 | 12Fifth Edition (V5) 13 | 14Sixth Edition (V6) -----* 15 \ | 16 \ | 17 \ | 18Seventh Edition (V7) | 19 \ | 20 \ 1BSD 21 32V | 22 \ 2BSD---------------* 23 \ / | 24 \ / | 25 \/ | 26 3BSD | 27 | | 28 4.0BSD 2.7.9BSD 29 | | 30 4.1BSD --------------> 2.8BSD 31 | | 32 4.1aBSD -----------\ | 33 | \ | 34 4.1bBSD \ | 35 | \ | 36 *------ 4.1cBSD --------------> 2.9BSD 37 / | | 38Eighth Edition | 2.9BSD-Seismo 39 | | | 40 +----<--- 4.2BSD 2.9.1BSD 41 | | | 42 +----<--- 4.3BSD -------------> 2.10BSD 43 | | / | 44Ninth Edition | / 2.10.1BSD 45 | 4.3BSD Tahoe-----+ | 46 | | \ | 47 | | \ | 48 v | 2.11BSD 49Tenth Edition | | 50 | 2.11BSD rev #430 51 4.3BSD NET/1 | 52 | v 53 4.3BSD Reno 54 | 55 *---------- 4.3BSD NET/2 -------------------+-------------* 56 | | | | 57386BSD 0.0 | | BSD/386 ALPHA 58 | | | | 59386BSD 0.1 ------------>+ | BSD/386 0.3.[13] 60 | \ | 4.4BSD Alpha | 61 | 386BSD 1.0 | | BSD/386 0.9.[34] 62 | | 4.4BSD | 63 | | / | | 64 | | 4.4BSD-Encumbered | | 65 | NetBSD 0.8 | BSD/386 1.0 66 | | | | 67FreeBSD 1.0 NetBSD 0.9 | BSD/386 1.1 68 | | .----- 4.4BSD Lite | 69FreeBSD 1.1 | / / | \ | 70 | | / / | \ | 71FreeBSD 1.1.5 .---|--------' / | \ | 72 | / | / | \ | 73FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 / | / | \ | 74 | / NetBSD 1.0 <-' | \ | 75 | / | | \ | 76FreeBSD 2.0 <--' | | BSD/OS 2.0 77 | \ | | 78FreeBSD 2.0.5 \ | BSD/OS 2.0.1 79 | .-----\------------- 4.4BSD Lite2 | 80 | | \ | | | | | 81 | | .-----|------Rhapsody | | | | 82 | | | | NetBSD 1.3 | | | 83 | | | | OpenBSD 2.3 | | 84 | | | | BSD/OS 3.0 | 85FreeBSD 2.1 | | | | 86 | | | | NetBSD 1.1 ------. BSD/OS 2.1 87 | FreeBSD 2.1.5 | | | \ | 88 | | | | NetBSD 1.2 \ BSD/OS 3.0 89 | FreeBSD 2.1.6 | | | \ OpenBSD 2.0 | 90 | | | | | \ | | 91 | FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 | | | \ | | 92 | | | | | \ | | 93 | FreeBSD 2.1.7 | | | | | | 94 | | | | | NetBSD 1.2.1 | | 95 | FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 | | | | | 96 | | | | | | 97 | | | | | | 98 *-FreeBSD 2.2 | | | | | 99 | \ | | | | | 100 | FreeBSD 2.2.1 | | | | | 101 | | | | | | | 102 | FreeBSD 2.2.2 | | | OpenBSD 2.1 | 103 | | | | | | | 104 | FreeBSD 2.2.5 | | | | | 105 | | | | | OpenBSD 2.2 | 106 | | | | NetBSD 1.3 | | 107 | FreeBSD 2.2.6 | | | | | | 108 | | | | | NetBSD 1.3.1 | BSD/OS 3.1 109 | | | | | | OpenBSD 2.3 | 110 | | | | | NetBSD 1.3.2 | | 111 | FreeBSD 2.2.7 | | | | | | 112 | | | | | | | BSD/OS 4.0 113 | v | | | | | | 114 | FreeBSD 2.2.8 | | | | | | 115 | | | | | OpenBSD 2.4 | 116FreeBSD 3.0 <--------* | | v | | 117 | | | NetBSD 1.3.3 | | 118 *---FreeBSD 3.1 | | | | 119 | | | | | BSD/OS 4.0.1 120 | FreeBSD 3.2----* | NetBSD 1.4 OpenBSD 2.5 | 121 | | | | | | | | | 122 | | | | | | | | | 123 | | | | | | | | | 124 | FreeBSD 3.3 | | | | NetBSD 1.4.1 | | 125 | | | | | | | OpenBSD 2.6 | 126 | FreeBSD 3.4 | | | | | | | 127 | | | | | | | | BSD/OS 4.1 128FreeBSD 4.0 | | | | | NetBSD 1.4.2 | | 129 | | | | | | | | | 130 | | | | | | | | | 131 | FreeBSD 3.5 | | | | | OpenBSD 2.7 | 132 | | | | | | | | | 133 | FreeBSD 3.5.1 | | | | | | | 134 | | | | | | | | 135 *---FreeBSD 4.1 | | | | | | | 136 | | | | (?) | | | | 137 | FreeBSD 4.1.1 | | / | | | | 138 | | | | / | | | | 139 | FreeBSD 4.2 Darwin/ | NetBSD 1.4.3 | | 140 | | Mac OS X | OpenBSD 2.8 BSD/OS 4.2 141 | | | | | | 142 | | | | | | 143 | | 10.0 NetBSD 1.5 | | 144 | FreeBSD 4.3 | | | | | 145 | | | | | OpenBSD 2.9 | 146 | | | | NetBSD 1.5.1 | | 147 | | | | | | | 148 | FreeBSD 4.4-. | | NetBSD 1.5.2 | | 149 | | | Mac OS X | | | | 150 | | | 10.1 | | OpenBSD 3.0 | 151 | FreeBSD 4.5 | | | | | | 152 | | \ | | | | BSD/OS 4.3 153 | FreeBSD 4.6 \ | | | OpenBSD 3.1 | 154 | | \ | | NetBSD 1.5.3 | | 155 | FreeBSD 4.6.2 Mac OS X | | | 156 | | 10.2 | | | 157 | FreeBSD 4.7 | | | | 158 | | | NetBSD 1.6 OpenBSD 3.2 | 159 | FreeBSD 4.8 | | | | | 160 | | | | NetBSD 1.6.1 | | 161 | |--------. | | | OpenBSD 3.3 BSD/OS 5.0 162 | | \ | | | | | 163 | FreeBSD 4.9 | | | | OpenBSD 3.4 BSD/OS 5.1 ISE 164 | | | | | | | 165 | | | | | NetBSD 1.6.2 | 166 | | | | | | | 167 | | | | | | OpenBSD 3.5 168 | | | | | v | 169 | FreeBSD 4.10 | | | | 170 | | | | | | 171 | FreeBSD 4.11 | | | | 172 | | | | | | 173 | v `-|------|-----------------|---------------------. 174 | | | | \ 175FreeBSD 5.0 | | | | 176 | | | | | 177FreeBSD 5.1 | | | DragonFly 1.0 178 | \ | | | | 179 | ----- Mac OS X | | | 180 | 10.3 | | | 181FreeBSD 5.2 | | | | 182 | | | | | | 183 | FreeBSD 5.2.1 | | | | 184 | | | | | 185 *---FreeBSD 5.3 | | | | 186 | | | | OpenBSD 3.6 | 187 | | | NetBSD 2.0 | | 188 | | | | | | | DragonFly 1.2.0 189 | | Mac OS X | | NetBSD 2.0.2 | | 190 | FreeBSD 5.4 10.4 | | | | | 191 | | | | | | OpenBSD 3.7 | 192 | V | | | NetBSD 2.0.3 | | 193 | | | | | | | 194 *---FreeBSD 6.0 | | | v OpenBSD 3.8 | 195 | | | | | | | 196 | V | | \ | | 197 | | | NetBSD 2.1 | | 198 | | | | | 199FreeBSD 7 -current | NetBSD -current OpenBSD -current | 200 | | | | | 201 v v v v v 202 203Time 204---------------- 205 206Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it 207was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape. 208 209[44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, 210 and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of 211 the 4.4BSD Operating System. 212[APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/] 213[BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc. 214[DFB] DragonFlyBSD Project, The. 215[DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape. 216[FBD] FreeBSD Project, The. 217[KB] Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources, 218 Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987. 219[KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement. 220 comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988. 221[KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz. 222 Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software 223 Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983. 224[NBD] NetBSD Project, The. 225[OBD] OpenBSD Project, The. 226[QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. 227[SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11. 228[USE] Usenet announcement. 229[WRS] Wind River Systems, Inc. 230[dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail 231 232Multics 1965 233UNIX Summer 1969 234 DEC PDP-7 235First Edition 1971-11-03 [QCU] 236 DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler 237Second Edition 1972-06-12 [QCU] 238 10 UNIX installations 239Third Edition 1973-02-xx [QCU] 240 Pipes, 16 installations 241Fourth Edition 1973-11-xx [QCU] 242 rewriting in C effected, 243 above 30 installations 244Fifth Edition 1974-06-xx [QCU] 245 above 50 installations 246Sixth Edition 1975-05-xx [QCU] 247 port to DEC Vax 248Seventh Edition 1979-01-xx [QCU] 249 first portable UNIX 250Eighth Edition 1985-02-xx [QCU] 251 VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr] 252 descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr] 253 descended from 4.1 BSD [44B] 254 scooping-out and replacement of the character-device 255 and networking part by the streams mechanism 256 257Ninth Edition 1986-09-xx [QCU] 258Tenth Edition 1989-10-xx [QCU] 259 2601BSD late 1977 261 1978-03-09 [QCU] 262 PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1) 263 30 free copies of 1BSD sent out 264 35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU] 2652BSD mid 1978 [QCU] 266 75 2BSD tapes shipped 2672.7.9BSD ?? [SMS] 2682.8BSD 1981-07-xx [KSJ] 269 2702.8.1BSD 1982-01-xx [QCU] 271 set of performance improvements 2722.9BSD 1983-07-xx [KSJ] 2732.9.1BSD 1983-11-xx 2742.9BSD-Seismo 1985-08-xx [SMS] 2752.10BSD 1987-04-xx [KKK] 2762.10.1BSD 1989-01-xx [SMS] 2772.11BSD 1992-02-xx [SMS] 2782.11BSD rev #430 1999-12-13 [SMS] 279 28032V 1978-1[01]-xx [QCU] 2813BSD late 1979 [QCU] 282 virtual memory, page replacement, 283 demand paging 2844.0BSD 1980-10-xx 2854.1BSD 1981-07-08 [DOC] 2864.1aBSD 1982-04-xx 287 alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B] 2884.1bBSD internal release, fast filesystem [44B] 2894.1cBSD late 1982 290 beta release, IPC [44B] 2914.2BSD 1983-09-xx [QCU] 292 1983-08-03 [DOC] 2934.3BSD 1986-06-xx [QCU] 294 1986-04-05 [KB], [DOC] 2954.3BSD Tahoe 1988-06-15 [QCU], [DOC] 2964.3BSD NET/1 1988-11-xx [QCU] 297 1989-01-01 [DOC] 2984.3BSD Reno 1990-06-29 [QCU], [DOC] 2994.3BSD NET/2 1991-06-28 [QCU], [DOC] 300 301BSD/386 ALPHA 1991-12-xx [BSDI] 302 first code released to people outside BSDI 303386BSD 0.0 1992-02-xx [DOC] 304BSD/386 0.3.1 1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers 305BSD/386 0.3.3 1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version 306386BSD 0.1 1992-07-28 [DOC] 3074.4BSD Alpha 1992-07-07 308BSD/386 0.9.3 1992-10-xx [BSDI] 309 first external gamma; G customers 310BSD/386 0.9.4 1992-12-xx [BSDI] 311 would have been 1.0 except for request 312 for preliminary injunction 313BSD/386 1.0 1993-03-xx [BSDI] 314 injunction denied; first official release 315NetBSD 0.8 1993-04-20 [NBD] 3164.4BSD 1993-06-01 [USE] 317NetBSD 0.9 1993-08-23 [NBD] 318FreeBSD 1.0 1993-11-01 [FBD] 319BSD/386 1.1 1994-02-xx [BSDI] 3204.4BSD Lite 1994-03-01 [USE] 321FreeBSD 1.1 1994-05-07 [FBD] 322FreeBSD 1.1.5 1994-06-30 [FBD] 323FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 1994-07-05 [FBD] 324 supersedes 1.1.5 5 days after release. 325NetBSD 1.0 1994-10-26 [NBD] 326386BSD 1.0 1994-11-12 [USE] 327FreeBSD 2.0 1994-11-23 [FBD] 328BSD/OS 2.0 1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based 329FreeBSD 2.0.5 1995-06-10 [FBD] 330BSD/OS 2.0.1 1995-06-xx [BSDI] 3314.4BSD Lite Release 2 1995-06-xx [44B] 332 the true final distribution from the CSRG 333FreeBSD 2.1.0 1995-11-19 [FBD] 334NetBSD 1.1 1995-11-26 [NBD] 335BSD/OS 2.1 1996-01-xx [BSDI] 336FreeBSD 2.1.5 1996-07-14 [FBD] 337NetBSD 1.2 1996-10-04 [NBD] 338OpenBSD 2.0 1996-10-18 [OBD] 339FreeBSD 2.1.6 1996-11-16 [FBD] 340FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release) 341Rhapsody 1997-xx-xx 342FreeBSD 2.1.7 1997-02-20 [FBD] 343BSD/OS 3.0 1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based 344FreeBSD 2.2.0 1997-03-16 [FBD] 345FreeBSD 2.2.1 1997-03-25 [FBD] 346FreeBSD 2.2.2 1997-05-16 [FBD] 347NetBSD 1.2.1 1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release) 348OpenBSD 2.1 1997-06-01 [OBD] 349FreeBSD 2.2.5 1997-10-22 [FBD] 350OpenBSD 2.2 1997-12-01 [OBD] 351NetBSD 1.3 1998-01-04 [NBD] 352FreeBSD 2.2.6 1998-03-25 [FBD] 353NetBSD 1.3.1 1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release) 354BSD/OS 3.1 1998-03-xx [BSDI] 355OpenBSD 2.3 1998-05-19 [OBD] 356NetBSD 1.3.2 1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release) 357FreeBSD 2.2.7 1998-07-22 [FBD] 358BSD/OS 4.0 1998-08-xx [BSDI] 359 2-lock MP support, ELF executables 360FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD] 361 FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current, 362 while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which 363 was branched quite some time after 3.0-release 364FreeBSD 2.2.8 1998-11-29 [FBD] 365OpenBSD 2.4 1998-12-01 [OBD] 366NetBSD 1.3.3 1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release) 367FreeBSD 3.1 1999-02-15 [FBD] 368BSD/OS 4.0.1 1999-03-xx [BSDI] 369NetBSD 1.4 1999-05-12 [NBD] 370FreeBSD 3.2 1999-05-17 [FBD] 371OpenBSD 2.5 1999-05-19 [OBD] 372NetBSD 1.4.1 1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release) 373FreeBSD 3.3 1999-09-17 [FBD] 374OpenBSD 2.6 1999-12-01 [OBD] 375FreeBSD 3.4 1999-12-20 [FBD] 376BSD/OS 4.1 1999-12-xx [BSDI] 377FreeBSD 4.0 2000-03-13 [FBD] 378NetBSD 1.4.2 2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release) 379OpenBSD 2.7 2000-06-15 [OBD] 380FreeBSD 3.5 2000-06-24 [FBD] 381FreeBSD 4.1 2000-07-27 [FBD] 382FreeBSD 3.5.1 2000-07-28 [FBD] 383FreeBSD 4.1.1 2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release) 384FreeBSD 4.2 2000-11-21 [FBD] 385NetBSD 1.4.3 2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release) 386BSD/OS 4.2 2000-11-29 [BSDI] 387OpenBSD 2.8 2000-12-01 [OBD] 388NetBSD 1.5 2000-12-06 [NBD] 389Mac OS X 10.0 2001-03-24 [APL] 390FreeBSD 4.3 2001-04-20 [FBD] 391OpenBSD 2.9 2001-06-01 [OBD] 392NetBSD 1.5.1 2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release) 393NetBSD 1.5.2 2001-09-13 [NBD] (patch release) 394FreeBSD 4.4 2001-09-18 [FBD] 395Mac OS X 10.1 2001-09-29 [APL] 396OpenBSD 3.0 2001-12-01 [OBD] 397FreeBSD 4.5 2002-01-29 [FBD] 398BSD/OS 4.3 2002-03-14 [WRS] 399OpenBSD 3.1 2002-05-19 [OBD] 400FreeBSD 4.6 2002-06-15 [FBD] 401NetBSD 1.5.3 2002-07-22 [NBD] (patch release) 402FreeBSD 4.6.2 2002-08-15 [FBD] (patch release) 403Mac OS X 10.2 2002-08-23 [APL] 404NetBSD 1.6 2002-09-14 [NBD] 405FreeBSD 4.7 2002-10-08 [FBD] 406OpenBSD 3.2 2002-11-01 [OBD] 407FreeBSD 5.0 2003-01-17 [FBD] 408 FreeBSD 5.0 is a separate branch off of 409 -current, similar to 3.0. 410FreeBSD 4.8 2003-04-03 [FBD] 411NetBSD 1.6.1 2003-04-21 [NBD] (patch release) 412OpenBSD 3.3 2003-05-01 [OBD] 413BSD/OS 5.0 2003-05-?? 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