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 |
217 | FreeBSD 6.3 | | | |
220 FreeBSD 7 -current | NetBSD -current OpenBSD -current |
227 Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it
228 was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
230 [44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels,
231 and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of
232 the 4.4BSD Operating System.
233 [APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]
234 [BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
235 [DFB] DragonFlyBSD Project, The.
236 [DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape.
237 [FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
238 [KB] Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources,
239 Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987.
240 [KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement.
241 comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
242 [KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz.
243 Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software
244 Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983.
245 [NBD] NetBSD Project, The.
246 [OBD] OpenBSD Project, The.
247 [QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX.
248 [SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
249 [USE] Usenet announcement.
250 [WRS] Wind River Systems, Inc.
251 [dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
256 First Edition 1971-11-03 [QCU]
257 DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
258 Second Edition 1972-06-12 [QCU]
259 10 UNIX installations
260 Third Edition 1973-02-xx [QCU]
261 Pipes, 16 installations
262 Fourth Edition 1973-11-xx [QCU]
263 rewriting in C effected,
264 above 30 installations
265 Fifth Edition 1974-06-xx [QCU]
266 above 50 installations
267 Sixth Edition 1975-05-xx [QCU]
269 Seventh Edition 1979-01-xx [QCU]
271 Eighth Edition 1985-02-xx [QCU]
272 VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
273 descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
274 descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
275 scooping-out and replacement of the character-device
276 and networking part by the streams mechanism
278 Ninth Edition 1986-09-xx [QCU]
279 Tenth Edition 1989-10-xx [QCU]
283 PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1)
284 30 free copies of 1BSD sent out
285 35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU]
287 75 2BSD tapes shipped
289 2.8BSD 1981-07-xx [KSJ]
291 2.8.1BSD 1982-01-xx [QCU]
292 set of performance improvements
293 2.9BSD 1983-07-xx [KSJ]
295 2.9BSD-Seismo 1985-08-xx [SMS]
296 2.10BSD 1987-04-xx [KKK]
297 2.10.1BSD 1989-01-xx [SMS]
298 2.11BSD 1992-02-xx [SMS]
299 2.11BSD rev #430 1999-12-13 [SMS]
301 32V 1978-1[01]-xx [QCU]
303 virtual memory, page replacement,
306 4.1BSD 1981-07-08 [DOC]
308 alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B]
309 4.1bBSD internal release, fast filesystem [44B]
311 beta release, IPC [44B]
312 4.2BSD 1983-09-xx [QCU]
314 4.3BSD 1986-06-xx [QCU]
315 1986-04-05 [KB], [DOC]
316 4.3BSD Tahoe 1988-06-15 [QCU], [DOC]
317 4.3BSD NET/1 1988-11-xx [QCU]
319 4.3BSD Reno 1990-06-29 [QCU], [DOC]
320 4.3BSD NET/2 1991-06-28 [QCU], [DOC]
322 BSD/386 ALPHA 1991-12-xx [BSDI]
323 first code released to people outside BSDI
324 386BSD 0.0 1992-02-xx [DOC]
325 BSD/386 0.3.1 1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers
326 BSD/386 0.3.3 1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version
327 386BSD 0.1 1992-07-28 [DOC]
328 4.4BSD Alpha 1992-07-07
329 BSD/386 0.9.3 1992-10-xx [BSDI]
330 first external gamma; G customers
331 BSD/386 0.9.4 1992-12-xx [BSDI]
332 would have been 1.0 except for request
333 for preliminary injunction
334 BSD/386 1.0 1993-03-xx [BSDI]
335 injunction denied; first official release
336 NetBSD 0.8 1993-04-20 [NBD]
337 4.4BSD 1993-06-01 [USE]
338 NetBSD 0.9 1993-08-23 [NBD]
339 FreeBSD 1.0 1993-11-01 [FBD]
340 FreeBSD 1.0.2 1993-11-14 [FBD]
341 supersedes 1.0 13 days after release.
342 BSD/386 1.1 1994-02-xx [BSDI]
343 4.4BSD Lite 1994-03-01 [USE]
344 FreeBSD 1.1 1994-05-07 [FBD]
345 FreeBSD 1.1.5 1994-06-30 [FBD]
346 FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 1994-07-05 [FBD]
347 supersedes 1.1.5 5 days after release.
348 NetBSD 1.0 1994-10-26 [NBD]
349 386BSD 1.0 1994-11-12 [USE]
350 FreeBSD 2.0 1994-11-23 [FBD]
351 BSD/OS 2.0 1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based
352 FreeBSD 2.0.5 1995-06-10 [FBD]
353 BSD/OS 2.0.1 1995-06-xx [BSDI]
354 4.4BSD Lite Release 2 1995-06-xx [44B]
355 the true final distribution from the CSRG
356 FreeBSD 2.1.0 1995-11-19 [FBD]
357 NetBSD 1.1 1995-11-26 [NBD]
358 BSD/OS 2.1 1996-01-xx [BSDI]
359 FreeBSD 2.1.5 1996-07-14 [FBD]
360 NetBSD 1.2 1996-10-04 [NBD]
361 OpenBSD 2.0 1996-10-18 [OBD]
362 FreeBSD 2.1.6 1996-11-16 [FBD]
363 FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release)
365 FreeBSD 2.1.7 1997-02-20 [FBD]
366 BSD/OS 3.0 1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based
367 FreeBSD 2.2.0 1997-03-16 [FBD]
368 FreeBSD 2.2.1 1997-03-25 [FBD]
369 FreeBSD 2.2.2 1997-05-16 [FBD]
370 NetBSD 1.2.1 1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release)
371 OpenBSD 2.1 1997-06-01 [OBD]
372 FreeBSD 2.2.5 1997-10-22 [FBD]
373 OpenBSD 2.2 1997-12-01 [OBD]
374 NetBSD 1.3 1998-01-04 [NBD]
375 FreeBSD 2.2.6 1998-03-25 [FBD]
376 NetBSD 1.3.1 1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release)
377 BSD/OS 3.1 1998-03-xx [BSDI]
378 OpenBSD 2.3 1998-05-19 [OBD]
379 NetBSD 1.3.2 1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release)
380 FreeBSD 2.2.7 1998-07-22 [FBD]
381 BSD/OS 4.0 1998-08-xx [BSDI]
382 2-lock MP support, ELF executables
383 FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD]
384 FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current,
385 while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which
386 was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
387 FreeBSD 2.2.8 1998-11-29 [FBD]
388 OpenBSD 2.4 1998-12-01 [OBD]
389 NetBSD 1.3.3 1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release)
390 FreeBSD 3.1 1999-02-15 [FBD]
391 BSD/OS 4.0.1 1999-03-xx [BSDI]
392 NetBSD 1.4 1999-05-12 [NBD]
393 FreeBSD 3.2 1999-05-17 [FBD]
394 OpenBSD 2.5 1999-05-19 [OBD]
395 NetBSD 1.4.1 1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release)
396 FreeBSD 3.3 1999-09-17 [FBD]
397 OpenBSD 2.6 1999-12-01 [OBD]
398 FreeBSD 3.4 1999-12-20 [FBD]
399 BSD/OS 4.1 1999-12-xx [BSDI]
400 FreeBSD 4.0 2000-03-13 [FBD]
401 NetBSD 1.4.2 2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release)
402 OpenBSD 2.7 2000-06-15 [OBD]
403 FreeBSD 3.5 2000-06-24 [FBD]
404 FreeBSD 4.1 2000-07-27 [FBD]
405 FreeBSD 3.5.1 2000-07-28 [FBD]
406 FreeBSD 4.1.1 2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release)
407 FreeBSD 4.2 2000-11-21 [FBD]
408 NetBSD 1.4.3 2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release)
409 BSD/OS 4.2 2000-11-29 [BSDI]
410 OpenBSD 2.8 2000-12-01 [OBD]
411 NetBSD 1.5 2000-12-06 [NBD]
412 Mac OS X 10.0 2001-03-24 [APL]
413 FreeBSD 4.3 2001-04-20 [FBD]
414 OpenBSD 2.9 2001-06-01 [OBD]
415 NetBSD 1.5.1 2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release)
416 NetBSD 1.5.2 2001-09-13 [NBD] (patch release)
417 FreeBSD 4.4 2001-09-18 [FBD]
418 Mac OS X 10.1 2001-09-29 [APL]
419 OpenBSD 3.0 2001-12-01 [OBD]
420 FreeBSD 4.5 2002-01-29 [FBD]
421 BSD/OS 4.3 2002-03-14 [WRS]
422 OpenBSD 3.1 2002-05-19 [OBD]
423 FreeBSD 4.6 2002-06-15 [FBD]
424 NetBSD 1.5.3 2002-07-22 [NBD] (patch release)
425 FreeBSD 4.6.2 2002-08-15 [FBD] (patch release)
426 Mac OS X 10.2 2002-08-23 [APL]
427 NetBSD 1.6 2002-09-14 [NBD]
428 FreeBSD 4.7 2002-10-08 [FBD]
429 OpenBSD 3.2 2002-11-01 [OBD]
430 FreeBSD 5.0 2003-01-17 [FBD]
431 FreeBSD 5.0 is a separate branch off of
432 -current, similar to 3.0.
433 FreeBSD 4.8 2003-04-03 [FBD]
434 NetBSD 1.6.1 2003-04-21 [NBD] (patch release)
435 OpenBSD 3.3 2003-05-01 [OBD]
436 BSD/OS 5.0 2003-05-?? [WRS]
437 FreeBSD 5.1 2003-06-09 [FBD]
438 Mac OS X 10.3 2003-10-24 [APL]
439 FreeBSD 4.9 2003-10-28 [FBD]
440 BSD/OS 5.1 ISE 2003-10-?? [WRS] (final version)
441 OpenBSD 3.4 2003-11-01 [OBD]
442 FreeBSD 5.2 2004-01-12 [FBD]
443 FreeBSD 5.2.1 2004-02-22 [FBD] (patch release)
444 NetBSD 1.6.2 2004-03-01 [NBD] (patch release)
445 OpenBSD 3.5 2004-04-01 [OBD]
446 FreeBSD 4.10 2004-05-27 [FBD]
447 DragonFly 1.0 2004-07-12 [DFB]
448 OpenBSD 3.6 2004-10-29 [OBD]
449 FreeBSD 5.3 2004-11-06 [FBD]
450 NetBSD 2.0 2004-12-09 [NBD]
451 FreeBSD 4.11 2005-01-25 [FBD]
452 DragonFly 1.2.0 2005-04-08 [DFB]
453 NetBSD 2.0.2 2005-04-14 [NBD] (security/critical release)
454 Mac OS X 10.4 2005-04-29 [APL]
455 FreeBSD 5.4 2005-05-09 [FBD]
456 OpenBSD 3.7 2005-05-19 [OBD]
457 NetBSD 2.0.3 2005-10-31 [NBD] (security/critical release)
458 OpenBSD 3.8 2005-11-01 [OBD]
459 FreeBSD 6.0 2005-11-01 [FBD]
460 NetBSD 2.1 2005-11-02 [NBD]
461 NetBSD 3.0 2005-12-23 [NBD]
462 DragonFly 1.4.0 2006-01-08 [DFB]
463 OpenBSD 3.9 2006-05-01 [OBD]
464 FreeBSD 6.1 2006-05-08 [FBD]
465 FreeBSD 5.5 2006-05-25 [FBD]
466 NetBSD 3.0.1 2006-07-24 [NBD] (security/critical release)
467 DragonFly 1.6.0 2006-07-24 [DFB]
468 OpenBSD 4.0 2006-11-01 [OBD]
469 NetBSD 3.0.2 2006-11-04 [NBD] (security/critical release)
470 NetBSD 3.1 2006-11-04 [NBD]
471 FreeBSD 6.2 2007-01-15 [FBD]
472 DragonFly 1.8.0 2007-01-30 [DFB]
473 OpenBSD 4.1 2007-05-01 [OBD]
474 DragonFly 1.10.0 2007-08-06 [DFB]
475 OpenBSD 4.2 2007-11-01 [OBD]
476 NetBSD 4.0 2007-12-19 [NBD]
477 FreeBSD 6.3 2008-01-18 [FBD]
480 ------------------------
482 Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John
483 Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
484 System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1
486 Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing
487 Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
489 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John
490 Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
491 System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4
493 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, George Neville-Neil. The Design and
494 Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System.
495 Addison-Wesley Professional, Published: Aug 2, 2004. ISBN 0-201-70245-2
497 Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader.
499 Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
500 Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the
501 Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993.
503 Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994.
504 URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm
506 Andreas Klemm, Lars Köller. If you're going to San Francisco ...
507 Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff.
509 BSD Release Announcements collection.
510 URL: http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/ftp/releases/
512 BSD Hypertext Man Pages
513 URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
515 UNIX history graphing project
516 URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
519 URL: http://www.levenez.com/unix/
521 James Howard: The BSD Family Tree
522 URL: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
523 ("what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?")
529 Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old
530 original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes.
532 Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
535 Copyright (c) 1997-2007 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
536 URL: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree