bsd-family-tree revision 1.12
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 |      |           |  | /   |    v            |             |
139 |   FreeBSD 4.2   Darwin/   | NetBSD 1.4.3    |             |
140 |      |         Mac OS X   |             OpenBSD 2.8     BSD/OS 4.2
141 |      |           10.0  NetBSD 1.5           |             |
142 |   FreeBSD 4.3      |      |    |            |             v
143 |      |             |      |    v        OpenBSD 2.9
144 |      |             |      | NetBSD 1.5.1    |
145 |      |             |      |    |            |
146 |   FreeBSD 4.4      |      | NetBSD 1.5.2    |
147 |      |             |      |    |            |
148 |      v             |      | NetBSD 1.5.3    |
149 |                    |      |                 |
150 |                    |      |                 |
151FreeBSD 5.0-current   |   NetBSD -current  OpenBSD -current
152 |                    |      |                 |
153 v                    |      v                 v
154                   Mac OS X  
155                     10.1
156
157Time
158----------------
159
160Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it
161was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
162
163[44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels,
164	and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of
165	the 4.4BSD Operating System.
166[APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]
167[DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape.
168[QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX.
169[U25] Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25.
170[USE] Usenet announcement.
171[KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz.
172	Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software
173	Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983.
174[KB]  Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources,
175	Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987.
176[KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement.
177	comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
178[SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
179[FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
180[NBD] NetBSD Project, The.
181[OBD] OpenBSD Project, The.
182[dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
183[BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
184
185Multics                 1965
186UNIX                    Summer 1969
187				DEC PDP-7
188First   Edition         1971-11-03 [QCU]
189				DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
190Second  Edition         1972-06-12 [QCU]
191				10 UNIX installations
192Third   Edition         1973-02-xx [QCU]
193				Pipes, 16 installations
194Fourth  Edition         1973-11-xx [QCU]
195				rewriting in C effected,
196                                above 30 installations
197Fifth   Edition         1974-06-xx [QCU]
198				above 50 installations
199Sixth   Edition         1975-05-xx [QCU]
200				port to DEC Vax
201Seventh Edition         1979-01-xx [QCU]
202				first portable UNIX
203Eighth  Edition         1985-02-xx [QCU]
204				VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
205				descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
206				descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
207			scooping-out and replacement of the character-device
208			and networking part by the streams mechanism
209
210Ninth   Edition         1986-09-xx [QCU]
211Tenth   Edition         1989-10-xx [QCU]
212
2131BSD                    late 1977
214			1978-03-09 [QCU]
215				PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1)
216				30 free copies of 1BSD sent out
217				35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU]
2182BSD                    mid 1978 [QCU]
219				75 2BSD tapes shipped
2202.7.9BSD		?? [SMS]
2212.8BSD			1981-07-xx [KSJ]
222
2232.8.1BSD		1982-01-xx [QCU]
224				set of performance improvements
2252.9BSD			1983-07-xx [KSJ]
2262.9.1BSD                1983-11-xx
2272.9BSD-Seismo		1985-08-xx [SMS]
2282.10BSD			1987-04-xx [KKK]
2292.10.1BSD		1989-01-xx [SMS]
2302.11BSD			1992-02-xx [SMS]
2312.11BSD rev #430	1999-12-13 [SMS]
232
23332V			1978-1[01]-xx [QCU]
2343BSD                    late 1979 [QCU]
235				virtual memory, page replacement,
236                        	demand paging
2374.0BSD                  1980-10-xx
2384.1BSD                  1981-06-xx
2394.1aBSD                 1982-04-xx
240				alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B]
2414.1bBSD				internal release, fast filesystem [44B]
2424.1cBSD                 late 1982
243				beta release, IPC [44B]
2444.2BSD                  1983-09-xx [QCU]
2454.3BSD                  1986-06-xx [QCU]
246			1986-04-xx [KB]
2474.3BSD Tahoe            1988-06-xx [QCU]
2484.3BSD NET/1            1988-11-xx [QCU]
2494.3BSD Reno             1990-06-xx [QCU], [DOC]
2504.3BSD NET/2            1991-06-xx [QCU]
251
252BSD/386 ALPHA		1991-12-xx [BSDI]
253				first code released to people outside BSDI
254386BSD 0.0              1992-02-xx [DOC]
255BSD/386 0.3.1	        1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers
256BSD/386 0.3.3		1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version
257386BSD 0.1              1992-07-28 [DOC]
2584.4BSD Alpha            1992-07-07
259BSD/386 0.9.3		1992-10-xx [BSDI]
260				first external gamma; G customers
261BSD/386 0.9.4		1992-12-xx [BSDI]
262				would have been 1.0 except for request
263				for preliminary injunction
264BSD/386 1.0 		1993-03-xx [BSDI]
265				injunction denied; first official release
266NetBSD 0.8              1993-04-20 [NBD]
2674.4BSD                  1993-06-01 [USE]
268NetBSD 0.9              1993-08-23 [NBD]
269FreeBSD 1.0		1993-11-01 [FBD]
270BSD/386 1.1		1994-02-xx [BSDI]
2714.4BSD Lite             1994-03-01 [USE]
272FreeBSD 1.1		1994-04-xx [FBD]
273FreeBSD 1.1.5.1		1994-07-xx [FBD]
274				supersedes 1.1.5 3 days after release.
275NetBSD 1.0              1994-10-26 [NBD]
276386BSD 1.0              1994-11-12 [USE]
277FreeBSD 2.0		1995-01-xx [FBD]
278BSD/OS 2.0		1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based
279FreeBSD 2.0.5		1995-06-10 [FBD]
280BSD/OS 2.0.1		1995-06-xx [BSDI]
2814.4BSD Lite Release 2	1995-06-xx [44B]
282				the true final distribution from the CSRG
283FreeBSD 2.1.0		1995-11-19 [FBD]
284NetBSD 1.1              1995-11-26 [NBD]
285BSD/OS 2.1		1996-01-xx [BSDI]
286FreeBSD 2.1.5		1996-07-14 [FBD]
287NetBSD 1.2              1996-10-04 [NBD]
288OpenBSD 2.0             1996-10-18 [OBD]
289FreeBSD 2.1.6		1996-11-16 [FBD]
290FreeBSD 2.1.6.1		1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release)
291Rhapsody		1997-xx-xx
292FreeBSD 2.1.7		1997-02-20 [FBD]
293BSD/OS 3.0		1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based
294FreeBSD 2.2.0		1997-03-16 [FBD]
295FreeBSD 2.2.1		1997-03-25 [FBD]
296FreeBSD 2.2.2		1997-05-16 [FBD]
297NetBSD 1.2.1            1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release)
298OpenBSD 2.1             1997-06-01 [OBD]
299FreeBSD 2.2.5		1997-10-22 [FBD]
300OpenBSD 2.2             1997-12-01 [OBD]
301NetBSD 1.3              1998-01-04 [NBD]
302FreeBSD 2.2.6		1998-03-25 [FBD]
303NetBSD 1.3.1            1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release)
304BSD/OS 3.1		1998-03-xx [BSDI]
305OpenBSD 2.3             1998-05-19 [OBD]
306NetBSD 1.3.2            1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release)
307FreeBSD 2.2.7		1998-07-22 [FBD]
308BSD/OS 4.0		1998-08-xx [BSDI]
309				2-lock MP support, ELF executables
310FreeBSD 3.0		1998-10-16 [FBD]
311				FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current,
312				while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which
313				was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
314FreeBSD 2.2.8           1998-11-29 [FBD]
315OpenBSD 2.4             1998-12-01 [OBD]
316NetBSD 1.3.3            1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release)
317FreeBSD 3.1		1999-02-15 [FBD]
318BSD/OS 4.0.1		1999-03-xx [BSDI]
319NetBSD 1.4              1999-05-12 [NBD]
320FreeBSD 3.2             1999-05-17 [FBD]
321OpenBSD 2.5             1999-05-19 [OBD]
322NetBSD 1.4.1            1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release)
323FreeBSD 3.3             1999-09-17 [FBD]
324OpenBSD 2.6             1999-12-01 [OBD]
325FreeBSD 3.4             1999-12-20 [FBD]
326BSD/OS 4.1		1999-12-xx [BSDI]
327FreeBSD 4.0             2000-03-13 [FBD]
328NetBSD 1.4.2            2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release)
329OpenBSD 2.7             2000-06-15 [OBD]
330FreeBSD 3.5		2000-06-24 [FBD]
331FreeBSD 4.1		2000-07-27 [FBD]
332FreeBSD 3.5.1		2000-07-28 [FBD]
333FreeBSD 4.1.1		2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release)
334FreeBSD 4.2  		2000-11-21 [FBD]
335NetBSD 1.4.3		2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release)
336BSD/OS 4.2		2000-11-29 [BSDI]
337OpenBSD 2.8		2000-12-01 [OBD]
338NetBSD 1.5              2000-12-06 [NBD]
339Mac OS X 10.0           2001-03-24 [APL]
340FreeBSD 4.3  		2001-04-20 [FBD]
341OpenBSD 2.9  		2001-06-01 [OBD]
342NetBSD 1.5.1		2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release)
343NetBSD 1.5.2		2001-09-13 [NBD] (patch release)
344NetBSD 1.5.3		2002-07-22 [NBD] (patch release)
345FreeBSD 4.4  		2001-09-18 [FBD]
346Mac OS X 10.1		2001-09-xx [APL]
347
348
349Bibliography
350------------------------
351
352Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John
353Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
354System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1
355
356Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing
357Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
358
359McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John
360Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
361System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4
362
363Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader.
364
365Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
366Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the
367Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993.
368
369Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994.
370URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm (unreachable)
371
372Andreas Klemm, Lars K�ller. If you're going to San Francisco ...
373Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff.
374
375BSD Release Announcements collection.
376URL: http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/ftp/releases/
377
378BSD Hypertext Man Pages
379URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
380
381UNIX history graphing project
382URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
383
384UNIX history
385URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/
386
387James Howard: The BSD Family Tree
388URL: http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
389("what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?")
390
391
392Acknowledgments
393---------------
394
395Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old
396original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes.
397
398Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
399
400--
401Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
402URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
403
404$FreeBSD: src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree,v 1.52 2001/09/28 17:18:10 wosch Exp $
405$NetBSD: bsd-family-tree,v 1.12 2002/07/23 06:53:35 grant Exp $
406