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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 |      |             |      |    v            |             |
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    |    v            |             |
157 |   FreeBSD 4.7      |      |                 |             |
158 |      |             |   NetBSD 1.6       OpenBSD 3.2       |
159 |   FreeBSD 4.8      |      |    |            |             |
160 |      |             |      | NetBSD 1.6.1    |             |
161 |      |             |      |    |        OpenBSD 3.3       |
162 |      |             |      |    |            |             |
163 |   FreeBSD 4.9      |      |    |        OpenBSD 3.4       |
164 |      |             |      |    |            |             |
165 |      v             |      |    |            |             |
166 |                    |      |    v            |             |
167FreeBSD 5.0	      |      |                 |             |
168 |                    |      |                 |            BSD/OS 5.0
169FreeBSD 5.1           |   NetBSD -current  OpenBSD -current  |
170 |          \         |      |                 |             v
171 |           ----- Mac OS X  |                 |
172 |                   10.3    |                 |
173FreeBSD 5 -current    |      |                 |
174 |                    |      |                 |
175 v                    v      v                 v
176
177Time
178----------------
179
180Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it
181was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
182
183[44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels,
184	and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of
185	the 4.4BSD Operating System.
186[APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]
187[BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
188[DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape.
189[FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
190[KB]  Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources,
191	Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987.
192[KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement.
193	comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
194[KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz.
195	Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software
196	Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983.
197[NBD] NetBSD Project, The.
198[OBD] OpenBSD Project, The.
199[QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX.
200[SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
201[USE] Usenet announcement.
202[WRS] Wind River Systems, Inc.
203[dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
204
205Multics                 1965
206UNIX                    Summer 1969
207				DEC PDP-7
208First   Edition         1971-11-03 [QCU]
209				DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
210Second  Edition         1972-06-12 [QCU]
211				10 UNIX installations
212Third   Edition         1973-02-xx [QCU]
213				Pipes, 16 installations
214Fourth  Edition         1973-11-xx [QCU]
215				rewriting in C effected,
216                                above 30 installations
217Fifth   Edition         1974-06-xx [QCU]
218				above 50 installations
219Sixth   Edition         1975-05-xx [QCU]
220				port to DEC Vax
221Seventh Edition         1979-01-xx [QCU]
222				first portable UNIX
223Eighth  Edition         1985-02-xx [QCU]
224				VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
225				descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
226				descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
227			scooping-out and replacement of the character-device
228			and networking part by the streams mechanism
229
230Ninth   Edition         1986-09-xx [QCU]
231Tenth   Edition         1989-10-xx [QCU]
232
2331BSD                    late 1977
234			1978-03-09 [QCU]
235				PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1)
236				30 free copies of 1BSD sent out
237				35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU]
2382BSD                    mid 1978 [QCU]
239				75 2BSD tapes shipped
2402.7.9BSD		?? [SMS]
2412.8BSD			1981-07-xx [KSJ]
242
2432.8.1BSD		1982-01-xx [QCU]
244				set of performance improvements
2452.9BSD			1983-07-xx [KSJ]
2462.9.1BSD                1983-11-xx
2472.9BSD-Seismo		1985-08-xx [SMS]
2482.10BSD			1987-04-xx [KKK]
2492.10.1BSD		1989-01-xx [SMS]
2502.11BSD			1992-02-xx [SMS]
2512.11BSD rev #430	1999-12-13 [SMS]
252
25332V			1978-1[01]-xx [QCU]
2543BSD                    late 1979 [QCU]
255				virtual memory, page replacement,
256                        	demand paging
2574.0BSD                  1980-10-xx
2584.1BSD                  1981-07-08 [DOC]
2594.1aBSD                 1982-04-xx
260				alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B]
2614.1bBSD				internal release, fast filesystem [44B]
2624.1cBSD                 late 1982
263				beta release, IPC [44B]
2644.2BSD                  1983-09-xx [QCU]
265                        1983-08-03 [DOC]
2664.3BSD                  1986-06-xx [QCU]
267			1986-04-05 [KB], [DOC]
2684.3BSD Tahoe            1988-06-15 [QCU], [DOC]
2694.3BSD NET/1            1988-11-xx [QCU]
270                        1989-01-01 [DOC]
2714.3BSD Reno             1990-06-29 [QCU], [DOC]
2724.3BSD NET/2            1991-06-28 [QCU], [DOC]
273
274BSD/386 ALPHA		1991-12-xx [BSDI]
275				first code released to people outside BSDI
276386BSD 0.0              1992-02-xx [DOC]
277BSD/386 0.3.1	        1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers
278BSD/386 0.3.3		1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version
279386BSD 0.1              1992-07-28 [DOC]
2804.4BSD Alpha            1992-07-07
281BSD/386 0.9.3		1992-10-xx [BSDI]
282				first external gamma; G customers
283BSD/386 0.9.4		1992-12-xx [BSDI]
284				would have been 1.0 except for request
285				for preliminary injunction
286BSD/386 1.0 		1993-03-xx [BSDI]
287				injunction denied; first official release
288NetBSD 0.8              1993-04-20 [NBD]
2894.4BSD                  1993-06-01 [USE]
290NetBSD 0.9              1993-08-23 [NBD]
291FreeBSD 1.0		1993-11-01 [FBD]
292BSD/386 1.1		1994-02-xx [BSDI]
2934.4BSD Lite             1994-03-01 [USE]
294FreeBSD 1.1		1994-04-xx [FBD]
295FreeBSD 1.1.5.1		1994-07-xx [FBD]
296				supersedes 1.1.5 3 days after release.
297NetBSD 1.0              1994-10-26 [NBD]
298386BSD 1.0              1994-11-12 [USE]
299FreeBSD 2.0		1995-01-xx [FBD]
300BSD/OS 2.0		1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based
301FreeBSD 2.0.5		1995-06-10 [FBD]
302BSD/OS 2.0.1		1995-06-xx [BSDI]
3034.4BSD Lite Release 2	1995-06-xx [44B]
304				the true final distribution from the CSRG
305FreeBSD 2.1.0		1995-11-19 [FBD]
306NetBSD 1.1              1995-11-26 [NBD]
307BSD/OS 2.1		1996-01-xx [BSDI]
308FreeBSD 2.1.5		1996-07-14 [FBD]
309NetBSD 1.2              1996-10-04 [NBD]
310OpenBSD 2.0             1996-10-18 [OBD]
311FreeBSD 2.1.6		1996-11-16 [FBD]
312FreeBSD 2.1.6.1		1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release)
313Rhapsody		1997-xx-xx
314FreeBSD 2.1.7		1997-02-20 [FBD]
315BSD/OS 3.0		1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based
316FreeBSD 2.2.0		1997-03-16 [FBD]
317FreeBSD 2.2.1		1997-03-25 [FBD]
318FreeBSD 2.2.2		1997-05-16 [FBD]
319NetBSD 1.2.1            1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release)
320OpenBSD 2.1             1997-06-01 [OBD]
321FreeBSD 2.2.5		1997-10-22 [FBD]
322OpenBSD 2.2             1997-12-01 [OBD]
323NetBSD 1.3              1998-01-04 [NBD]
324FreeBSD 2.2.6		1998-03-25 [FBD]
325NetBSD 1.3.1            1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release)
326BSD/OS 3.1		1998-03-xx [BSDI]
327OpenBSD 2.3             1998-05-19 [OBD]
328NetBSD 1.3.2            1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release)
329FreeBSD 2.2.7		1998-07-22 [FBD]
330BSD/OS 4.0		1998-08-xx [BSDI]
331				2-lock MP support, ELF executables
332FreeBSD 3.0		1998-10-16 [FBD]
333				FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current,
334				while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which
335				was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
336FreeBSD 2.2.8           1998-11-29 [FBD]
337OpenBSD 2.4             1998-12-01 [OBD]
338NetBSD 1.3.3            1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release)
339FreeBSD 3.1		1999-02-15 [FBD]
340BSD/OS 4.0.1		1999-03-xx [BSDI]
341NetBSD 1.4              1999-05-12 [NBD]
342FreeBSD 3.2             1999-05-17 [FBD]
343OpenBSD 2.5             1999-05-19 [OBD]
344NetBSD 1.4.1            1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release)
345FreeBSD 3.3             1999-09-17 [FBD]
346OpenBSD 2.6             1999-12-01 [OBD]
347FreeBSD 3.4             1999-12-20 [FBD]
348BSD/OS 4.1		1999-12-xx [BSDI]
349FreeBSD 4.0             2000-03-13 [FBD]
350NetBSD 1.4.2            2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release)
351OpenBSD 2.7             2000-06-15 [OBD]
352FreeBSD 3.5		2000-06-24 [FBD]
353FreeBSD 4.1		2000-07-27 [FBD]
354FreeBSD 3.5.1		2000-07-28 [FBD]
355FreeBSD 4.1.1		2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release)
356FreeBSD 4.2  		2000-11-21 [FBD]
357NetBSD 1.4.3		2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release)
358BSD/OS 4.2		2000-11-29 [BSDI]
359OpenBSD 2.8		2000-12-01 [OBD]
360NetBSD 1.5              2000-12-06 [NBD]
361Mac OS X 10.0           2001-03-24 [APL]
362FreeBSD 4.3  		2001-04-20 [FBD]
363OpenBSD 2.9  		2001-06-01 [OBD]
364NetBSD 1.5.1		2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release)
365NetBSD 1.5.2		2001-09-13 [NBD] (patch release)
366FreeBSD 4.4  		2001-09-18 [FBD]
367Mac OS X 10.1		2001-09-29 [APL]
368OpenBSD 3.0		2001-12-01 [OBD]
369FreeBSD 4.5  		2002-01-29 [FBD]
370BSD/OS 4.3		2002-03-14 [WRS]
371OpenBSD 3.1		2002-05-19 [OBD]
372FreeBSD 4.6  		2002-06-15 [FBD]
373NetBSD 1.5.3		2002-07-22 [NBD] (patch release)
374FreeBSD 4.6.2		2002-08-15 [FBD] (patch release)
375Mac OS X 10.2		2002-08-23 [APL]
376NetBSD 1.6		2002-09-14 [NBD]
377FreeBSD 4.7		2002-10-08 [FBD]
378OpenBSD 3.2		2002-11-01 [OBD]
379FreeBSD 5.0		2003-01-17 [FBD]
380				FreeBSD 5.0 is a separate branch off of
381				-current, similar to 3.0.
382FreeBSD 4.8		2003-04-03 [FBD]
383NetBSD 1.6.1		2003-04-21 [NBD] (patch release)
384OpenBSD 3.3		2003-05-01 [OBD]
385BSD/OS 5.0		2003-05-?? [WRS]
386FreeBSD 5.1		2003-06-09 [FBD]
387Mac OS X 10.3		2003-10-24 [APL]
388FreeBSD 4.9		2003-10-28 [FBD]
389OpenBSD 3.4		2003-11-01 [OBD]
390
391Bibliography
392------------------------
393
394Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John
395Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
396System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1
397
398Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing
399Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
400
401McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John
402Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
403System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4
404
405Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader.
406
407Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
408Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the
409Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993.
410
411Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994.
412URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm (unreachable)
413
414Andreas Klemm, Lars K�ller. If you're going to San Francisco ...
415Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff.
416
417BSD Release Announcements collection.
418URL: http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/ftp/releases/
419
420BSD Hypertext Man Pages
421URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
422
423UNIX history graphing project
424URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
425
426UNIX history
427URL: http://www.levenez.com/unix/
428
429James Howard: The BSD Family Tree
430URL: http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
431("what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?")
432
433
434Acknowledgments
435---------------
436
437Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old
438original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes.
439
440Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
441
442--
443Copyright (c) 1997-2003 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
444URL: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
445
446$FreeBSD$
447