bsd-family-tree revision 114211
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    |             v
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 |      v             |      |    |            |
162 |                    |      |    v            |
163FreeBSD 5.0	      |      |                 |
164 |                    |      |                 |
165FreeBSD 5.0-current   |   NetBSD -current  OpenBSD -current
166 |                    |      |                 |
167 v                    v      v                 v
168
169Time
170----------------
171
172Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it
173was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
174
175[44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels,
176	and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of
177	the 4.4BSD Operating System.
178[APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]
179[BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
180[DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape.
181[FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
182[KB]  Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources,
183	Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987.
184[KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement.
185	comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
186[KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz.
187	Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software
188	Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983.
189[NBD] NetBSD Project, The.
190[OBD] OpenBSD Project, The.
191[QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX.
192[SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
193[USE] Usenet announcement.
194[WRS] Wind River Systems, Inc.
195[dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
196
197Multics                 1965
198UNIX                    Summer 1969
199				DEC PDP-7
200First   Edition         1971-11-03 [QCU]
201				DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
202Second  Edition         1972-06-12 [QCU]
203				10 UNIX installations
204Third   Edition         1973-02-xx [QCU]
205				Pipes, 16 installations
206Fourth  Edition         1973-11-xx [QCU]
207				rewriting in C effected,
208                                above 30 installations
209Fifth   Edition         1974-06-xx [QCU]
210				above 50 installations
211Sixth   Edition         1975-05-xx [QCU]
212				port to DEC Vax
213Seventh Edition         1979-01-xx [QCU]
214				first portable UNIX
215Eighth  Edition         1985-02-xx [QCU]
216				VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
217				descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
218				descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
219			scooping-out and replacement of the character-device
220			and networking part by the streams mechanism
221
222Ninth   Edition         1986-09-xx [QCU]
223Tenth   Edition         1989-10-xx [QCU]
224
2251BSD                    late 1977
226			1978-03-09 [QCU]
227				PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1)
228				30 free copies of 1BSD sent out
229				35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU]
2302BSD                    mid 1978 [QCU]
231				75 2BSD tapes shipped
2322.7.9BSD		?? [SMS]
2332.8BSD			1981-07-xx [KSJ]
234
2352.8.1BSD		1982-01-xx [QCU]
236				set of performance improvements
2372.9BSD			1983-07-xx [KSJ]
2382.9.1BSD                1983-11-xx
2392.9BSD-Seismo		1985-08-xx [SMS]
2402.10BSD			1987-04-xx [KKK]
2412.10.1BSD		1989-01-xx [SMS]
2422.11BSD			1992-02-xx [SMS]
2432.11BSD rev #430	1999-12-13 [SMS]
244
24532V			1978-1[01]-xx [QCU]
2463BSD                    late 1979 [QCU]
247				virtual memory, page replacement,
248                        	demand paging
2494.0BSD                  1980-10-xx
2504.1BSD                  1981-07-08 [DOC]
2514.1aBSD                 1982-04-xx
252				alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B]
2534.1bBSD				internal release, fast filesystem [44B]
2544.1cBSD                 late 1982
255				beta release, IPC [44B]
2564.2BSD                  1983-09-xx [QCU]
257                        1983-08-03 [DOC]
2584.3BSD                  1986-06-xx [QCU]
259			1986-04-05 [KB], [DOC]
2604.3BSD Tahoe            1988-06-15 [QCU], [DOC]
2614.3BSD NET/1            1988-11-xx [QCU]
262                        1989-01-01 [DOC]
2634.3BSD Reno             1990-06-29 [QCU], [DOC]
2644.3BSD NET/2            1991-06-28 [QCU], [DOC]
265
266BSD/386 ALPHA		1991-12-xx [BSDI]
267				first code released to people outside BSDI
268386BSD 0.0              1992-02-xx [DOC]
269BSD/386 0.3.1	        1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers
270BSD/386 0.3.3		1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version
271386BSD 0.1              1992-07-28 [DOC]
2724.4BSD Alpha            1992-07-07
273BSD/386 0.9.3		1992-10-xx [BSDI]
274				first external gamma; G customers
275BSD/386 0.9.4		1992-12-xx [BSDI]
276				would have been 1.0 except for request
277				for preliminary injunction
278BSD/386 1.0 		1993-03-xx [BSDI]
279				injunction denied; first official release
280NetBSD 0.8              1993-04-20 [NBD]
2814.4BSD                  1993-06-01 [USE]
282NetBSD 0.9              1993-08-23 [NBD]
283FreeBSD 1.0		1993-11-01 [FBD]
284BSD/386 1.1		1994-02-xx [BSDI]
2854.4BSD Lite             1994-03-01 [USE]
286FreeBSD 1.1		1994-04-xx [FBD]
287FreeBSD 1.1.5.1		1994-07-xx [FBD]
288				supersedes 1.1.5 3 days after release.
289NetBSD 1.0              1994-10-26 [NBD]
290386BSD 1.0              1994-11-12 [USE]
291FreeBSD 2.0		1995-01-xx [FBD]
292BSD/OS 2.0		1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based
293FreeBSD 2.0.5		1995-06-10 [FBD]
294BSD/OS 2.0.1		1995-06-xx [BSDI]
2954.4BSD Lite Release 2	1995-06-xx [44B]
296				the true final distribution from the CSRG
297FreeBSD 2.1.0		1995-11-19 [FBD]
298NetBSD 1.1              1995-11-26 [NBD]
299BSD/OS 2.1		1996-01-xx [BSDI]
300FreeBSD 2.1.5		1996-07-14 [FBD]
301NetBSD 1.2              1996-10-04 [NBD]
302OpenBSD 2.0             1996-10-18 [OBD]
303FreeBSD 2.1.6		1996-11-16 [FBD]
304FreeBSD 2.1.6.1		1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release)
305Rhapsody		1997-xx-xx
306FreeBSD 2.1.7		1997-02-20 [FBD]
307BSD/OS 3.0		1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based
308FreeBSD 2.2.0		1997-03-16 [FBD]
309FreeBSD 2.2.1		1997-03-25 [FBD]
310FreeBSD 2.2.2		1997-05-16 [FBD]
311NetBSD 1.2.1            1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release)
312OpenBSD 2.1             1997-06-01 [OBD]
313FreeBSD 2.2.5		1997-10-22 [FBD]
314OpenBSD 2.2             1997-12-01 [OBD]
315NetBSD 1.3              1998-01-04 [NBD]
316FreeBSD 2.2.6		1998-03-25 [FBD]
317NetBSD 1.3.1            1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release)
318BSD/OS 3.1		1998-03-xx [BSDI]
319OpenBSD 2.3             1998-05-19 [OBD]
320NetBSD 1.3.2            1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release)
321FreeBSD 2.2.7		1998-07-22 [FBD]
322BSD/OS 4.0		1998-08-xx [BSDI]
323				2-lock MP support, ELF executables
324FreeBSD 3.0		1998-10-16 [FBD]
325				FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current,
326				while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which
327				was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
328FreeBSD 2.2.8           1998-11-29 [FBD]
329OpenBSD 2.4             1998-12-01 [OBD]
330NetBSD 1.3.3            1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release)
331FreeBSD 3.1		1999-02-15 [FBD]
332BSD/OS 4.0.1		1999-03-xx [BSDI]
333NetBSD 1.4              1999-05-12 [NBD]
334FreeBSD 3.2             1999-05-17 [FBD]
335OpenBSD 2.5             1999-05-19 [OBD]
336NetBSD 1.4.1            1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release)
337FreeBSD 3.3             1999-09-17 [FBD]
338OpenBSD 2.6             1999-12-01 [OBD]
339FreeBSD 3.4             1999-12-20 [FBD]
340BSD/OS 4.1		1999-12-xx [BSDI]
341FreeBSD 4.0             2000-03-13 [FBD]
342NetBSD 1.4.2            2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release)
343OpenBSD 2.7             2000-06-15 [OBD]
344FreeBSD 3.5		2000-06-24 [FBD]
345FreeBSD 4.1		2000-07-27 [FBD]
346FreeBSD 3.5.1		2000-07-28 [FBD]
347FreeBSD 4.1.1		2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release)
348FreeBSD 4.2  		2000-11-21 [FBD]
349NetBSD 1.4.3		2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release)
350BSD/OS 4.2		2000-11-29 [BSDI]
351OpenBSD 2.8		2000-12-01 [OBD]
352NetBSD 1.5              2000-12-06 [NBD]
353Mac OS X 10.0           2001-03-24 [APL]
354FreeBSD 4.3  		2001-04-20 [FBD]
355OpenBSD 2.9  		2001-06-01 [OBD]
356NetBSD 1.5.1		2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release)
357NetBSD 1.5.2		2001-09-13 [NBD] (patch release)
358FreeBSD 4.4  		2001-09-18 [FBD]
359Mac OS X 10.1		2001-09-29 [APL]
360OpenBSD 3.0		2001-12-01 [OBD]
361FreeBSD 4.5  		2002-01-29 [FBD]
362BSD/OS 4.3		2002-03-14 [WRS]
363OpenBSD 3.1		2002-05-19 [OBD]
364FreeBSD 4.6  		2002-06-15 [FBD]
365NetBSD 1.5.3		2002-07-22 [NBD] (patch release)
366FreeBSD 4.6.2		2002-08-15 [FBD] (patch release)
367Mac OS X 10.2		2002-08-23 [APL]
368NetBSD 1.6		2002-09-14 [NBD]
369FreeBSD 4.7		2002-10-08 [FBD]
370OpenBSD 3.2		2002-11-01 [OBD]
371FreeBSD 5.0		2003-01-17 [FBD]
372				FreeBSD 5.0 is a separate branch off of
373				-current, similar to 3.0.
374FreeBSD 4.8		2003-04-03 [FBD]
375NetBSD 1.6.1		2003-04-21 [NBD] (patch release)
376
377
378Bibliography
379------------------------
380
381Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John
382Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
383System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1
384
385Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing
386Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
387
388McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John
389Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
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391
392Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader.
393
394Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
395Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the
396Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993.
397
398Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994.
399URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm (unreachable)
400
401Andreas Klemm, Lars K�ller. If you're going to San Francisco ...
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403
404BSD Release Announcements collection.
405URL: http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/ftp/releases/
406
407BSD Hypertext Man Pages
408URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
409
410UNIX history graphing project
411URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
412
413UNIX history
414URL: http://www.levenez.com/unix/
415
416James Howard: The BSD Family Tree
417URL: http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
418("what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?")
419
420
421Acknowledgments
422---------------
423
424Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old
425original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes.
426
427Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
428
429--
430Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
431URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
432
433$FreeBSD: head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree 114211 2003-04-29 12:07:11Z wosch $
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