bsd-family-tree revision 69278
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 | | | 58 | | | | 59386BSD 0.1 ------------>+ | BSDI 1.0 60 | \ | 4.4BSD Alpha | 61 | 386BSD 1.0 | | | 62 | | 4.4BSD | 63 | | / | | 64 | | 4.4BSD-Encumbered | | 65 | NetBSD 0.8 | | 66 | | | | 67FreeBSD 1.0 NetBSD 0.9 | | 68 | | .----- 4.4BSD Lite --> BSDI 2.0 69FreeBSD 1.1 | / / | | 70 | | / / | BSDI 2.0.1 71FreeBSD 1.1.5 .---|--------' / | | 72 | / | / 4.4BSD Lite2 -> BSDI 2.1 73FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 / | / / | | \ | 74 | / NetBSD 1.0 <-' / | | \ | 75 | / | / | | `-BSDI 3.0 76FreeBSD 2.0 <--' | FreeBSD 3.0 | | | 77 | \ NetBSD 1.3 | v 78FreeBSD 2.0.5 \ OpenBSD 2.3 79 | \ 80 | \ 81FreeBSD 2.1 | 82 | | NetBSD 1.1 ------. 83 | FreeBSD 2.1.5 | \ 84 | | NetBSD 1.2 \ 85 | FreeBSD 2.1.6 | \ OpenBSD 2.0 86 | | | \ | 87 | FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 | \ | 88 | | | \ | 89 | FreeBSD 2.1.7 | | | 90 | | | NetBSD 1.2.1 | 91 | FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 | | 92 | | | 93 | | | 94 *-FreeBSD 2.2 | | 95 | \ | | 96 | FreeBSD 2.2.1 | | 97 | | | | 98 | FreeBSD 2.2.2 | OpenBSD 2.1 99 | | | | 100 | FreeBSD 2.2.5 | | 101 | | | OpenBSD 2.2 102 | | NetBSD 1.3 | 103 | FreeBSD 2.2.6 | | | 104 | | | NetBSD 1.3.1 | 105 | | | | OpenBSD 2.3 106 | | | NetBSD 1.3.2 | 107 | FreeBSD 2.2.7 | | | 108 | | | | | 109 | v | | | 110 | FreeBSD 2.2.8 | | | 111 | | | | 112 | | | OpenBSD 2.4 113FreeBSD 3.0 | v | 114 | | NetBSD 1.3.3 | 115 *---FreeBSD 3.1 | | 116 | | | | 117 | FreeBSD 3.2 NetBSD 1.4 OpenBSD 2.5 118 | | | | | 119 | FreeBSD 3.3 | NetBSD 1.4.1 | 120 | | | | OpenBSD 2.6 121 | FreeBSD 3.4 | | | 122 | | | | | 123FreeBSD 4.0 | | NetBSD 1.4.2 | 124 | | | | | 125 | | | | | 126 | FreeBSD 3.5 | | OpenBSD 2.7 127 | | | | | 128 | FreeBSD 3.5.1 | | | 129 | | | | 130 *---FreeBSD 4.1 | | | 131 | | | | | 132 | FreeBSD 4.1.1 | | | 133 | | | | | 134 | FreeBSD 4.2 | NetBSD 1.4.3 | 135 | | | OpenBSD 2.8 136 | v | | 137 | | | 138 | | | 139FreeBSD 5.0-current NetBSD -current OpenBSD -current 140 | | | 141 v v v 142 143 144Time 145---------------- 146 147Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it 148was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape. 149 150[44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, 151 and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of 152 the 4.4BSD Operating System. 153[DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape. 154[QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. 155[U25] Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. 156[USE] Usenet announcement. 157[KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz. 158 Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software 159 Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983. 160[KB] Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources, 161 Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987. 162[KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement. 163 comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988. 164[SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11. 165[FBD] FreeBSD Project, The. 166[NBD] NetBSD Project, The. 167[OBD] OpenBSD Project, The. 168[dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail 169 170 171Multics 1965 172UNIX Summer 1969 173 DEC PDP-7 174First Edition 1971-11-03 [QCU] 175 DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler 176Second Edition 1972-06-12 [QCU] 177 10 UNIX installations 178Third Edition 1973-02-xx [QCU] 179 Pipes, 16 installations 180Fourth Edition 1973-11-xx [QCU] 181 rewriting in C effected, 182 above 30 installations 183Fifth Edition 1974-06-xx [QCU] 184 above 50 installations 185Sixth Edition 1975-05-xx [QCU] 186 port to DEC Vax 187Seventh Edition 1979-01-xx [QCU] 188 first portable UNIX 189Eighth Edition 1985-02-xx [QCU] 190 VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr] 191 descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr] 192 descended from 4.1 BSD [44B] 193 scooping-out and replacement of the character-device 194 and networking part by the streams mechanism 195 196Ninth Edition 1986-09-xx [QCU] 197Tenth Edition 1989-10-xx [QCU] 198 1991BSD late 1977 200 1978-03-09 [QCU] 201 PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1) 202 30 free copies of 1BSD sent out 203 35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU] 2042BSD mid 1978 [QCU] 205 75 2BSD tapes shipped 2062.7.9BSD ?? [SMS] 2072.8BSD 1981-07-xx [KSJ] 208 2092.8.1BSD 1982-01-xx [QCU] 210 set of performance improvements 2112.9BSD 1983-07-xx [KSJ] 2122.9.1BSD 1983-11-xx 2132.9BSD-Seismo 1985-08-xx [SMS] 2142.10BSD 1987-04-xx [KKK] 2152.10.1BSD 1989-01-xx [SMS] 2162.11BSD 1992-02-xx [SMS] 2172.11BSD rev #430 1999-12-13 [SMS] 218 21932V 1978-1[01]-xx [QCU] 2203BSD late 1979 [QCU] 221 virtual memory, page replacement, 222 demand paging 2234.0BSD 1980-10-xx 2244.1BSD 1981-06-xx 2254.1aBSD 1982-04-xx 226 alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B] 2274.1bBSD internal release, fast filesystem [44B] 2284.1cBSD late 1982 229 beta release, IPC [44B] 2304.2BSD 1983-09-xx [QCU] 2314.3BSD 1986-06-xx [QCU] 232 1986-04-xx [KB] 2334.3BSD Tahoe 1988-06-xx [QCU] 2344.3BSD NET/1 1988-11-xx [QCU] 2354.3BSD Reno 1990-06-xx [QCU], [DOC] 2364.3BSD NET/2 1991-06-xx [QCU] 237386BSD 0.0 1992-02-xx [DOC] 238386BSD 0.1 1992-07-28 [DOC] 2394.4BSD Alpha 1992-07-07 240NetBSD 0.8 1993-04-20 [NBD] 2414.4BSD 1993-06-01 [USE] 242NetBSD 0.9 1993-08-23 [NBD] 243FreeBSD 1.0 1993-11-xx [FOO] 2444.4BSD Lite 1994-03-01 [USE] 245FreeBSD 1.1 1994-04-xx [FBD] 246FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 1994-07-xx [FBD] 247 supersedes 1.1.5 3 days after release. 248NetBSD 1.0 1994-10-26 [NBD] 249386BSD 1.0 1994-11-12 [USE] 250FreeBSD 2.0 1995-01-xx [FBD] 251FreeBSD 2.0.5 1995-06-10 [FBD] 2524.4BSD Lite Release 2 1995-06-xx [44B] 253 the true final distribution from the CSRG 254FreeBSD 2.1.0 1995-11-19 [FBD] 255NetBSD 1.1 1995-11-26 [NBD] 256FreeBSD 2.1.5 1996-07-14 [FBD] 257NetBSD 1.2 1996-10-04 [NBD] 258OpenBSD 2.0 1996-10-18 [OBD] 259FreeBSD 2.1.6 1996-11-16 [FBD] 260FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release) 261FreeBSD 2.1.7 1997-02-20 [FBD] 262FreeBSD 2.2.0 1997-03-16 [FBD] 263FreeBSD 2.2.1 1997-03-25 [FBD] 264FreeBSD 2.2.2 1997-05-16 [FBD] 265NetBSD 1.2.1 1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release) 266OpenBSD 2.1 1997-06-01 [OBD] 267FreeBSD 2.2.5 1997-10-22 [FBD] 268OpenBSD 2.2 1997-12-01 [OBD] 269NetBSD 1.3 1998-01-04 [NBD] 270FreeBSD 2.2.6 1998-03-25 [FBD] 271NetBSD 1.3.1 1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release) 272OpenBSD 2.3 1998-05-19 [OBD] 273NetBSD 1.3.2 1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release) 274FreeBSD 2.2.7 1998-07-22 [FBD] 275FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD] 276 FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current, 277 while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which 278 was branched quite some time after 3.0-release 279FreeBSD 2.2.8 1998-11-29 [FBD] 280OpenBSD 2.4 1998-12-01 [OBD] 281NetBSD 1.3.3 1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release) 282FreeBSD 3.1 1999-02-15 [FBD] 283NetBSD 1.4 1999-05-12 [NBD] 284FreeBSD 3.2 1999-05-17 [FBD] 285OpenBSD 2.5 1999-05-19 [OBD] 286NetBSD 1.4.1 1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release) 287FreeBSD 3.3 1999-09-17 [FBD] 288OpenBSD 2.6 1999-12-01 [OBD] 289FreeBSD 3.4 1999-12-20 [FBD] 290FreeBSD 4.0 2000-03-13 [FBD] 291NetBSD 1.4.2 2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release) 292OpenBSD 2.7 2000-06-15 [OBD] 293FreeBSD 3.5 2000-06-24 [FBD] 294FreeBSD 4.1 2000-07-27 [FBD] 295FreeBSD 3.5.1 2000-07-28 [FBD] 296FreeBSD 4.1.1 2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release) 297FreeBSD 4.2 2000-11-21 [FBD] 298NetBSD 1.4.3 2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release) 299OpenBSD 2.8 2000-12-01 [OBD] 300 301 302Bibliography 303------------------------ 304 305Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John 306Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating 307System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1 308 309Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing 310Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5 311 312McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John 313Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating 314System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4 315 316Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader. 317 318Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix. 319Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the 320Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993. 321 322Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994. 323URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm 324 325Andreas Klemm, Lars K�ller. If you're going to San Francisco ... 326Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff. 327 328BSD Release Announcements collection. 329URL: http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/ftp/releases/ 330 331BSD Hypertext Man Pages 332http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi 333 334UNIX history graphing project 335http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Unix_History/index.html 336 337UNIX history 338http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/ 339 340Acknowledgments 341--------------- 342 343Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old 344original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes. 345 346Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages. 347 348-- 349Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG> 350URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree 351 352$FreeBSD: head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree 69278 2000-11-27 17:03:04Z asmodai $ 353 354