1 The UNIX system family tree: Research and BSD
2 ---------------------------------------------
14 Sixth Edition (V6) -----*
18 Seventh Edition (V7) |
22 \ 2BSD---------------*
30 4.1BSD --------------> 2.8BSD
32 4.1aBSD -----------\ |
36 *------ 4.1cBSD --------------> 2.9BSD
38 Eighth Edition | 2.9BSD-Seismo
40 +----<--- 4.2BSD 2.9.1BSD
42 +----<--- 4.3BSD -------------> 2.10BSD
44 Ninth Edition | / 2.10.1BSD
45 | 4.3BSD Tahoe-----+ |
55 *---------- 4.3BSD NET/2 -------------------+-------------*
57 386BSD 0.0 | | BSD/386 ALPHA
59 386BSD 0.1 ------------>+ | BSD/386 0.3.[13]
61 | 386BSD 1.0 | | BSD/386 0.9.[34]
64 | | 4.4BSD-Encumbered | |
65 | NetBSD 0.8 | BSD/386 1.0
67 FreeBSD 1.0 NetBSD 0.9 | BSD/386 1.1
68 | | .----- 4.4BSD Lite |
69 FreeBSD 1.1 | / / | \ |
71 FreeBSD 1.1.5 .---|--------' / | \ |
73 FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 / | / | \ |
74 | / NetBSD 1.0 <-' | \ |
76 FreeBSD 2.0 <--' | | BSD/OS 2.0
78 FreeBSD 2.0.5 \ | BSD/OS 2.0.1
79 | .-----\------------- 4.4BSD Lite2 |
81 | | .-----|------Rhapsody | | | |
82 | | | | NetBSD 1.3 | | |
83 | | | | OpenBSD 2.3 | |
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 |
91 | FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 | | | \ | |
93 | FreeBSD 2.1.7 | | | | | |
94 | | | | | NetBSD 1.2.1 | |
95 | FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 | | | | |
98 *-FreeBSD 2.2 | | | | |
100 | FreeBSD 2.2.1 | | | | |
102 | FreeBSD 2.2.2 | | | OpenBSD 2.1 |
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
114 | FreeBSD 2.2.8 | | | | | |
115 | | | | | OpenBSD 2.4 |
116 FreeBSD 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 |
124 | FreeBSD 3.3 | | | | NetBSD 1.4.1 | |
125 | | | | | | | OpenBSD 2.6 |
126 | FreeBSD 3.4 | | | | | | |
127 | | | | | | | | BSD/OS 4.1
128 FreeBSD 4.0 | | | | | NetBSD 1.4.2 | |
131 | FreeBSD 3.5 | | | | | OpenBSD 2.7 |
133 | FreeBSD 3.5.1 | | | | | | |
135 *---FreeBSD 4.1 | | | | | | |
137 | FreeBSD 4.1.1 | | / | | | |
139 | FreeBSD 4.2 Darwin/ | NetBSD 1.4.3 | |
140 | | Mac OS X | OpenBSD 2.8 BSD/OS 4.2
143 | | 10.0 NetBSD 1.5 | |
144 | FreeBSD 4.3 | | | | |
145 | | | | | OpenBSD 2.9 |
146 | | | | NetBSD 1.5.1 | |
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 | | |
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
163 | FreeBSD 4.9 | | | | OpenBSD 3.4 BSD/OS 5.1 ISE
165 | | | | | NetBSD 1.6.2 |
167 | | | | | | OpenBSD 3.5
169 | FreeBSD 4.10 | | | |
171 | FreeBSD 4.11 | | | |
173 | v `-|------|-----------------|---------------------.
177 FreeBSD 5.1 | | | DragonFly 1.0
179 | ----- Mac OS X | | |
183 | FreeBSD 5.2.1 | | | |
185 *-------FreeBSD 5.3 | | | |
186 | | | | OpenBSD 3.6 |
188 | | | | | | | DragonFly 1.2.0
189 | | Mac OS X | | NetBSD 2.0.2 | |
191 | FreeBSD 5.4 | | | | | |
192 | | | | | | OpenBSD 3.7 |
193 | | | | | NetBSD 2.0.3 | |
195 *--FreeBSD | | | | v OpenBSD 3.8 |
198 | | | | | NetBSD 2.1 | |
200 | | | | NetBSD 3.0 | |
201 | | | | | | | | DragonFly 1.4.0
202 | | | | | | | OpenBSD 3.9 |
203 | FreeBSD | | | | | | |
205 | | FreeBSD 5.5 | | | | | |
206 | | | | | NetBSD 3.0.1 | DragonFly 1.6.0
208 | | | | | | OpenBSD 4.0 |
209 | | | | | NetBSD 3.0.2 | |
210 | | | | NetBSD 3.1 | |
211 | FreeBSD 6.2 | | | |
212 | | | | | DragonFly 1.8.0
213 | | | | OpenBSD 4.1 |
214 | | | | | DragonFly 1.10.0
215 | | | | OpenBSD 4.2 |
218 FreeBSD 7 -current | NetBSD -current OpenBSD -current |
225 Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it
226 was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
228 [44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels,
229 and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of
230 the 4.4BSD Operating System.
231 [APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]
232 [BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
233 [DFB] DragonFlyBSD Project, The.
234 [DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape.
235 [FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
236 [KB] Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources,
237 Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987.
238 [KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement.
239 comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
240 [KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz.
241 Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software
242 Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983.
243 [NBD] NetBSD Project, The.
244 [OBD] OpenBSD Project, The.
245 [QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX.
246 [SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
247 [USE] Usenet announcement.
248 [WRS] Wind River Systems, Inc.
249 [dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
254 First Edition 1971-11-03 [QCU]
255 DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
256 Second Edition 1972-06-12 [QCU]
257 10 UNIX installations
258 Third Edition 1973-02-xx [QCU]
259 Pipes, 16 installations
260 Fourth Edition 1973-11-xx [QCU]
261 rewriting in C effected,
262 above 30 installations
263 Fifth Edition 1974-06-xx [QCU]
264 above 50 installations
265 Sixth Edition 1975-05-xx [QCU]
267 Seventh Edition 1979-01-xx [QCU]
269 Eighth Edition 1985-02-xx [QCU]
270 VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
271 descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
272 descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
273 scooping-out and replacement of the character-device
274 and networking part by the streams mechanism
276 Ninth Edition 1986-09-xx [QCU]
277 Tenth Edition 1989-10-xx [QCU]
281 PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1)
282 30 free copies of 1BSD sent out
283 35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU]
285 75 2BSD tapes shipped
287 2.8BSD 1981-07-xx [KSJ]
289 2.8.1BSD 1982-01-xx [QCU]
290 set of performance improvements
291 2.9BSD 1983-07-xx [KSJ]
293 2.9BSD-Seismo 1985-08-xx [SMS]
294 2.10BSD 1987-04-xx [KKK]
295 2.10.1BSD 1989-01-xx [SMS]
296 2.11BSD 1992-02-xx [SMS]
297 2.11BSD rev #430 1999-12-13 [SMS]
299 32V 1978-1[01]-xx [QCU]
301 virtual memory, page replacement,
304 4.1BSD 1981-07-08 [DOC]
306 alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B]
307 4.1bBSD internal release, fast filesystem [44B]
309 beta release, IPC [44B]
310 4.2BSD 1983-09-xx [QCU]
312 4.3BSD 1986-06-xx [QCU]
313 1986-04-05 [KB], [DOC]
314 4.3BSD Tahoe 1988-06-15 [QCU], [DOC]
315 4.3BSD NET/1 1988-11-xx [QCU]
317 4.3BSD Reno 1990-06-29 [QCU], [DOC]
318 4.3BSD NET/2 1991-06-28 [QCU], [DOC]
320 BSD/386 ALPHA 1991-12-xx [BSDI]
321 first code released to people outside BSDI
322 386BSD 0.0 1992-02-xx [DOC]
323 BSD/386 0.3.1 1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers
324 BSD/386 0.3.3 1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version
325 386BSD 0.1 1992-07-28 [DOC]
326 4.4BSD Alpha 1992-07-07
327 BSD/386 0.9.3 1992-10-xx [BSDI]
328 first external gamma; G customers
329 BSD/386 0.9.4 1992-12-xx [BSDI]
330 would have been 1.0 except for request
331 for preliminary injunction
332 BSD/386 1.0 1993-03-xx [BSDI]
333 injunction denied; first official release
334 NetBSD 0.8 1993-04-20 [NBD]
335 4.4BSD 1993-06-01 [USE]
336 NetBSD 0.9 1993-08-23 [NBD]
337 FreeBSD 1.0 1993-11-01 [FBD]
338 FreeBSD 1.0.2 1993-11-14 [FBD]
339 supersedes 1.0 13 days after release.
340 BSD/386 1.1 1994-02-xx [BSDI]
341 4.4BSD Lite 1994-03-01 [USE]
342 FreeBSD 1.1 1994-05-07 [FBD]
343 FreeBSD 1.1.5 1994-06-30 [FBD]
344 FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 1994-07-05 [FBD]
345 supersedes 1.1.5 5 days after release.
346 NetBSD 1.0 1994-10-26 [NBD]
347 386BSD 1.0 1994-11-12 [USE]
348 FreeBSD 2.0 1994-11-23 [FBD]
349 BSD/OS 2.0 1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based
350 FreeBSD 2.0.5 1995-06-10 [FBD]
351 BSD/OS 2.0.1 1995-06-xx [BSDI]
352 4.4BSD Lite Release 2 1995-06-xx [44B]
353 the true final distribution from the CSRG
354 FreeBSD 2.1.0 1995-11-19 [FBD]
355 NetBSD 1.1 1995-11-26 [NBD]
356 BSD/OS 2.1 1996-01-xx [BSDI]
357 FreeBSD 2.1.5 1996-07-14 [FBD]
358 NetBSD 1.2 1996-10-04 [NBD]
359 OpenBSD 2.0 1996-10-18 [OBD]
360 FreeBSD 2.1.6 1996-11-16 [FBD]
361 FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release)
363 FreeBSD 2.1.7 1997-02-20 [FBD]
364 BSD/OS 3.0 1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based
365 FreeBSD 2.2.0 1997-03-16 [FBD]
366 FreeBSD 2.2.1 1997-03-25 [FBD]
367 FreeBSD 2.2.2 1997-05-16 [FBD]
368 NetBSD 1.2.1 1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release)
369 OpenBSD 2.1 1997-06-01 [OBD]
370 FreeBSD 2.2.5 1997-10-22 [FBD]
371 OpenBSD 2.2 1997-12-01 [OBD]
372 NetBSD 1.3 1998-01-04 [NBD]
373 FreeBSD 2.2.6 1998-03-25 [FBD]
374 NetBSD 1.3.1 1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release)
375 BSD/OS 3.1 1998-03-xx [BSDI]
376 OpenBSD 2.3 1998-05-19 [OBD]
377 NetBSD 1.3.2 1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release)
378 FreeBSD 2.2.7 1998-07-22 [FBD]
379 BSD/OS 4.0 1998-08-xx [BSDI]
380 2-lock MP support, ELF executables
381 FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD]
382 FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current,
383 while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which
384 was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
385 FreeBSD 2.2.8 1998-11-29 [FBD]
386 OpenBSD 2.4 1998-12-01 [OBD]
387 NetBSD 1.3.3 1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release)
388 FreeBSD 3.1 1999-02-15 [FBD]
389 BSD/OS 4.0.1 1999-03-xx [BSDI]
390 NetBSD 1.4 1999-05-12 [NBD]
391 FreeBSD 3.2 1999-05-17 [FBD]
392 OpenBSD 2.5 1999-05-19 [OBD]
393 NetBSD 1.4.1 1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release)
394 FreeBSD 3.3 1999-09-17 [FBD]
395 OpenBSD 2.6 1999-12-01 [OBD]
396 FreeBSD 3.4 1999-12-20 [FBD]
397 BSD/OS 4.1 1999-12-xx [BSDI]
398 FreeBSD 4.0 2000-03-13 [FBD]
399 NetBSD 1.4.2 2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release)
400 OpenBSD 2.7 2000-06-15 [OBD]
401 FreeBSD 3.5 2000-06-24 [FBD]
402 FreeBSD 4.1 2000-07-27 [FBD]
403 FreeBSD 3.5.1 2000-07-28 [FBD]
404 FreeBSD 4.1.1 2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release)
405 FreeBSD 4.2 2000-11-21 [FBD]
406 NetBSD 1.4.3 2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release)
407 BSD/OS 4.2 2000-11-29 [BSDI]
408 OpenBSD 2.8 2000-12-01 [OBD]
409 NetBSD 1.5 2000-12-06 [NBD]
410 Mac OS X 10.0 2001-03-24 [APL]
411 FreeBSD 4.3 2001-04-20 [FBD]
412 OpenBSD 2.9 2001-06-01 [OBD]
413 NetBSD 1.5.1 2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release)
414 NetBSD 1.5.2 2001-09-13 [NBD] (patch release)
415 FreeBSD 4.4 2001-09-18 [FBD]
416 Mac OS X 10.1 2001-09-29 [APL]
417 OpenBSD 3.0 2001-12-01 [OBD]
418 FreeBSD 4.5 2002-01-29 [FBD]
419 BSD/OS 4.3 2002-03-14 [WRS]
420 OpenBSD 3.1 2002-05-19 [OBD]
421 FreeBSD 4.6 2002-06-15 [FBD]
422 NetBSD 1.5.3 2002-07-22 [NBD] (patch release)
423 FreeBSD 4.6.2 2002-08-15 [FBD] (patch release)
424 Mac OS X 10.2 2002-08-23 [APL]
425 NetBSD 1.6 2002-09-14 [NBD]
426 FreeBSD 4.7 2002-10-08 [FBD]
427 OpenBSD 3.2 2002-11-01 [OBD]
428 FreeBSD 5.0 2003-01-17 [FBD]
429 FreeBSD 5.0 is a separate branch off of
430 -current, similar to 3.0.
431 FreeBSD 4.8 2003-04-03 [FBD]
432 NetBSD 1.6.1 2003-04-21 [NBD] (patch release)
433 OpenBSD 3.3 2003-05-01 [OBD]
434 BSD/OS 5.0 2003-05-?? [WRS]
435 FreeBSD 5.1 2003-06-09 [FBD]
436 Mac OS X 10.3 2003-10-24 [APL]
437 FreeBSD 4.9 2003-10-28 [FBD]
438 BSD/OS 5.1 ISE 2003-10-?? [WRS] (final version)
439 OpenBSD 3.4 2003-11-01 [OBD]
440 FreeBSD 5.2 2004-01-12 [FBD]
441 FreeBSD 5.2.1 2004-02-22 [FBD] (patch release)
442 NetBSD 1.6.2 2004-03-01 [NBD] (patch release)
443 OpenBSD 3.5 2004-04-01 [OBD]
444 FreeBSD 4.10 2004-05-27 [FBD]
445 DragonFly 1.0 2004-07-12 [DFB]
446 OpenBSD 3.6 2004-10-29 [OBD]
447 FreeBSD 5.3 2004-11-06 [FBD]
448 NetBSD 2.0 2004-12-09 [NBD]
449 FreeBSD 4.11 2005-01-25 [FBD]
450 DragonFly 1.2.0 2005-04-08 [DFB]
451 NetBSD 2.0.2 2005-04-14 [NBD] (security/critical release)
452 Mac OS X 10.4 2005-04-29 [APL]
453 FreeBSD 5.4 2005-05-09 [FBD]
454 OpenBSD 3.7 2005-05-19 [OBD]
455 NetBSD 2.0.3 2005-10-31 [NBD] (security/critical release)
456 OpenBSD 3.8 2005-11-01 [OBD]
457 FreeBSD 6.0 2005-11-01 [FBD]
458 NetBSD 2.1 2005-11-02 [NBD]
459 NetBSD 3.0 2005-12-23 [NBD]
460 DragonFly 1.4.0 2006-01-08 [DFB]
461 OpenBSD 3.9 2006-05-01 [OBD]
462 FreeBSD 6.1 2006-05-08 [FBD]
463 FreeBSD 5.5 2006-05-25 [FBD]
464 NetBSD 3.0.1 2006-07-24 [NBD] (security/critical release)
465 DragonFly 1.6.0 2006-07-24 [DFB]
466 OpenBSD 4.0 2006-11-01 [OBD]
467 NetBSD 3.0.2 2006-11-04 [NBD] (security/critical release)
468 NetBSD 3.1 2006-11-04 [NBD]
469 FreeBSD 6.2 2007-01-15 [FBD]
470 DragonFly 1.8.0 2007-01-30 [DFB]
471 OpenBSD 4.1 2007-05-01 [OBD]
472 DragonFly 1.10.0 2007-08-06 [DFB]
473 OpenBSD 4.2 2007-11-01 [OBD]
474 NetBSD 4.0 2007-12-19 [NBD]
477 ------------------------
479 Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John
480 Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
481 System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1
483 Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing
484 Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
486 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John
487 Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
488 System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4
490 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, George Neville-Neil. The Design and
491 Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System.
492 Addison-Wesley Professional, Published: Aug 2, 2004. ISBN 0-201-70245-2
494 Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader.
496 Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
497 Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the
498 Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993.
500 Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994.
501 URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm
503 Andreas Klemm, Lars Köller. If you're going to San Francisco ...
504 Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff.
506 BSD Release Announcements collection.
507 URL: http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/ftp/releases/
509 BSD Hypertext Man Pages
510 URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
512 UNIX history graphing project
513 URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
516 URL: http://www.levenez.com/unix/
518 James Howard: The BSD Family Tree
519 URL: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
520 ("what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?")
526 Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old
527 original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes.
529 Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
532 Copyright (c) 1997-2007 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
533 URL: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
535 $FreeBSD: src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree,v 1.117 2007/12/19 18:19:53 maxim Exp $
536 $DragonFly: src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree,v 1.14 2007/12/29 21:00:42 swildner Exp $