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English: A diagram showing the key Unix and Unix-like operating systems

Deutsch: Ein Diagramm, das die wichtigsten Unix-basierten Betriebssysteme darstellt

Español: Un diagrama que muestra los sistemas operativos clave Unix y similares a Unix

Date

8 July 2008

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Own work using: Levenez Unix History Diagram, Information on the history of IBM's AIX on ibm.com

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Eraserhead1, Infinity0, Sav_vas

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Licensing notes:

Linux was inspired by MINIX and Unix, but Linux and GNU code was written from scratch.
BSD was originally based on code copyrighted by AT&T, but over the period 1989–1994, was rewritten to purge all AT&T code.
The Single UNIX Specification controls access to the Unix trademark, owned by The Open Group.
Novell purchased the Unix copyright from AT&T, which it still owns as of August 2010 (see SCO v. Novell).
The Santa Cruz Operation purchased the right to develop and sublicense SCO OpenServer and UnixWare from Novell, which it sold to what is now (2010) the SCO Group (see SCO v. Novell).
IBM AIX is a licensed Unix derivative, as is HP-UX

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:34, 17 October 2023	1,920 × 1,080 (136 KB)	Jokx	Reworked format 16x9, better color harmony (split-complementary), fix alignements, removed multiple extra white space, fixe text alignement
	15:53, 2 February 2023	1,962 × 1,282 (118 KB)	Bespos	Removed OpenServer 10.x for simplicity, as it was a short-lived FreeBSD derivative without descendants. Simplified years, clarified the histories of DragonFly BSD and HP-UX. Minix 1.x was not Free Software (e.g. see talk page). Updates to 2023 and fixes to text alignment.
	15:48, 2 February 2023	2,100 × 1,462 (117 KB)	Bespos	Reverted to version as of 20:50, 23 September 2022 (UTC) (I messed up the edit message)
	15:42, 2 February 2023	1,962 × 1,282 (118 KB)	Bespos	Fixes: Fix alignment of OpenSolaris text Show Minix 1.x as Mixed/Shared source – while source was available, it was only released under a Free Software licence in 2000. Change NetBSD 9.3 to 9.x, as 9.3 is only a minor release in the ongoing 9.x series Clarification: DragonFly BSD's derivation from FreeBSD: Separate 2003 and 2004 from 2001–04 Separate FreeBSD 3.3 to 4.x, as DragonFly BSD was forked from 4.8 Specify HP-UX 6 to 11.10 rather than 6 to 11 Sp...
	20:50, 23 September 2022	2,100 × 1,462 (117 KB)	Bespos	Updates: Minix development ceased in 2018, Linux 6.x pre-releases have begun, OpenServer 10.x has ceased while 6.x continues. Releases of macOS 13/Darwin 22, FreeBSD 13.x, Dragonfly BSD 6.2, NetBSD 9.3, OpenBSD 7.1 and AIX 7.3. Centring of label on OpenSolaris.
	13:44, 20 April 2022	2,012 × 1,462 (95 KB)	Palosirkka	Linux was non-commercial till 0.99
	20:17, 26 October 2020	2,012 × 1,462 (95 KB)	Emil Engler	OpenBSD 6.8
	16:37, 23 May 2020	2,012 × 1,462 (95 KB)	Oknazevad	Reverted to version as of 17:04, 21 May 2020 (UTC) again, there's no support for z/OS as a native Unix system, on this talk page of any other that I can find. It's a compatibility layer, not a native Unix system. We don't include Windows systems with a compatibility layer.
	14:27, 23 May 2020	2,005 × 1,371 (118 KB)	Altanner1991	MVS/ESA SP 4.3 OpenEdition, OS/390
	20:25, 22 May 2020	2,005 × 1,371 (116 KB)	Altanner1991	alignment-spacing/fixing the wrong file
	20:15, 22 May 2020	2,012 × 1,462 (115 KB)	Altanner1991	improving symmetricity
	19:59, 22 May 2020	2,005 × 1,371 (116 KB)	Altanner1991	(thumbnail issue)
	19:58, 22 May 2020	2,000 × 1,371 (116 KB)	Altanner1991	Reverted to version as of 19:50, 22 May 2020 (UTC) used the wrong file in the upload
	19:56, 22 May 2020	2,005 × 1,371 (116 KB)	Altanner1991	slight fix on spacing (and finishing file changes which were cut) MINIX is, like Linux, also an "independent reimplementation" clone. Please refer to the relevant talk page section if wanting to debate the issue. No other major operating system is missing now.
	19:50, 22 May 2020	2,000 × 1,371 (116 KB)	Altanner1991	Including z/OS has for some time now been the opinion on the relevant Unix talk page section. Minix and Linux are less UNIX than z/OS. Indeed "Linux is a Unix Clone and shares no actual code."; UNIX codes are proprietary. "The Linux kernel did not start with any other UNIX code as a base. However, during the SCO vs IBM lawsuit, it was shown that Linux contained some code from a UNIX OS based on BSD known as Dynix." (There is a StackExchange discussion which lists all of these points.) MINIX i...
	17:04, 21 May 2020	2,012 × 1,462 (95 KB)	Emil Engler	OpenBSD 6.7 was released yesterday
	01:40, 16 May 2020	2,012 × 1,462 (115 KB)	Oknazevad	Reverted to version as of 20:09, 4 January 2020 (UTC) rvt good faith. z/OS is not a Unix system, but descends from the older IBM mainframe systems. Compatibility is via a compatibility layer, not native
	17:08, 28 April 2020	2,132 × 1,462 (116 KB)	Altanner1991	z/OS
	20:09, 4 January 2020	2,012 × 1,462 (115 KB)	SouthernWolf95	Updated to be accurate as of 2019. Expanded SVG dimensions to better fit new information and render correctly.
	20:07, 4 January 2020	1,960 × 1,358 (77 KB)	SouthernWolf95	Reverted to version as of 19:45, 4 January 2020 (UTC) due to ongoing text formatting issues
	19:53, 4 January 2020	1,972 × 1,447 (115 KB)	SouthernWolf95	Updated information to be accurate as of the end of 2019. Fixed dimension and text formatting issues.
	19:45, 4 January 2020	1,960 × 1,358 (77 KB)	SouthernWolf95	Reverted to version as of 00:32, 13 June 2018 (UTC) due to issues with text formatting in the SVG
	19:34, 4 January 2020	1,972 × 1,447 (115 KB)	SouthernWolf95	Updated to make information accurate as of the end of 2019. Also slightly expanded SVG dimensions to better fit graphics contained within it.
	00:32, 13 June 2018	1,960 × 1,358 (77 KB)	Oknazevad	Reverted to version as of 03:29, 5 December 2017 (UTC) Thise lines make readability worse, not better, as they go right through text.
	12:41, 18 January 2018	1,960 × 1,358 (113 KB)	Sae1962	Zeitlinien für die Jahrzehnte hinzugefügt
	03:29, 5 December 2017	1,960 × 1,358 (77 KB)	Oknazevad	Reverted to version as of 17:20, 26 November 2017 (UTC) compete double revert
	03:29, 5 December 2017	1,960 × 1,358 (80 KB)	Oknazevad	Reverted to version as of 19:14, 19 November 2017 (UTC) because the most recent changes aren't showing up in thumbnail, having to double revert to try to fix
	17:20, 26 November 2017	1,960 × 1,358 (77 KB)	Oknazevad	Although now using a BSD codebase, OpenServer 10 does have code from previous versions and old UnixWare versions, too, to act as a successor to both. So, they should be linked. Also, the skulls were cheesy anyway.
	19:14, 19 November 2017	1,960 × 1,358 (80 KB)	Oknazevad	HP-UX is not dead. Remove skull (as had to be done for Solaris)
	19:31, 8 October 2017	1,960 × 1,358 (139 KB)	Nyq	decapitalized common nouns
	20:09, 21 September 2017	1,960 × 1,358 (139 KB)	Xiloynaha	Changed license for BSD 4.3 and Unix 9 & 10. Added connector from Xenix V/386 to SVR4.
	03:17, 21 September 2017	1,960 × 1,358 (136 KB)	Xiloynaha	Synchronize with File:Unix history-simple.en.svg.
	02:06, 21 September 2017	1,959 × 1,306 (113 KB)	Xiloynaha	* Re-added DragonFly BSD. * Added notes about SVR4.2 and SVR5 (UnixWare). * Visual improvements: reset all borders to 1 px, center each label vertically and horizontally in its frame. * SVG improvements: group each frame with its label, make the right...
	19:09, 9 June 2014	1,959 × 1,306 (135 KB)	KommissärMatthäi	Reverted to version as of 03:09, 7 December 2013
	00:04, 26 April 2014	3,079 × 1,306 (136 KB)	Coadde	fix type
	23:30, 25 April 2014	3,079 × 1,306 (169 KB)	Coadde	add GNU, DragonFly BSD, Illumos and other systems
	03:09, 7 December 2013	1,959 × 1,306 (135 KB)	Messerjokke79	Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.9.x (Darwin)
	19:10, 7 October 2013	1,959 × 1,306 (135 KB)	Qwertyus	* there was never a "Unics", that's a myth (the name was suggested but not actually applied) * lots of typos fixed * merged OpenSolaris and illumos boxes to one, "OpenSolaris and derivatives" * Xenix W is probably an error
	18:33, 7 August 2013	1,959 × 1,306 (135 KB)	Michaeldsuarez	Updating version numbers and years. New boxes: Solaris 10, Solaris 11, and illumos. Separate column for OpenSolaris and illumos. Removing viewBox due to new dimensions.
	20:16, 2 August 2013	2,300 × 1,490 (129 KB)	Michaeldsuarez	I must've hit the wrong key. I meant 1490, not 1480.
	20:02, 2 August 2013	2,300 × 1,480 (129 KB)	Michaeldsuarez	Removing unnecessary empty space at the top and bottom by adjusting the height of the canvas and the height of the viewBox.
	06:14, 15 March 2013	2,300 × 1,600 (130 KB)	LordDragonfang	As per previous revision note, hopefully this one uploads properly.
	06:08, 15 March 2013	2,300 × 1,600 (130 KB)	LordDragonfang	Fixed font on "2011", moved said text element closer to the other years in the xml.
	17:10, 23 June 2012	2,300 × 1,600 (130 KB)	Timothy Gu
	02:58, 7 August 2011	2,300 × 1,450 (128 KB)	Rd184	Mac OS X is now updated to 10.7
	05:32, 10 July 2010	2,300 × 1,450 (128 KB)	Sav vas	* Re-created all text boxes * Re-written all text using "Sans"
	22:49, 8 July 2010	2,300 × 1,450 (106 KB)	Sav vas	Suffering from bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15994 Trying again with bitstream vera sans as backup font
	22:34, 8 July 2010	2,300 × 1,450 (104 KB)	Sav vas	Removed bogus new lines once more
	22:15, 8 July 2010	2,300 × 1,450 (103 KB)	Sav vas	added more fonts, hopefully it will get it
	22:04, 8 July 2010	2,300 × 1,450 (106 KB)	Sav vas	Removed bold
	21:59, 8 July 2010	2,300 × 1,450 (109 KB)	Sav vas	fixed "AIX 1.0" duplicate boxes
	21:49, 8 July 2010	2,300 × 1,450 (124 KB)	Sav vas	* Used inkscape. * Vacuumed unused defs. * Changed "Helvetica" to open source "Dejavu Sans". * Fixed all text that had a new line character. * Fixed/Removed all duplicate background boxes and text. * Shapes use their own border.
	09:05, 28 June 2010	2,246 × 1,448 (78 KB)	Albuseer	Reverted to version as of 15:43, 18 February 2010
	09:04, 28 June 2010	2,247 × 1,448 (1.03 MB)	Albuseer	convert text to path
	15:43, 18 February 2010	2,246 × 1,448 (78 KB)	BPK	Reformatted XML in Visual Studio. Manually removed filter="url(#Shadow)" as the picture needed too much time and CPU load to be rendered in Opera. Now I'll be struggling with text labels problem.
	14:52, 20 December 2009	2,246 × 1,448 (76 KB)	Eraserhead1	Updated for 2009/2010, changed a few other minor details
	15:43, 20 November 2009	2,246 × 1,429 (110 KB)	Beao	Removed white background.
	10:35, 16 March 2009	2,246 × 1,429 (77 KB)	Eraserhead1	Trying to see if I can get the text to look better in the preview, minor adjustments
	10:22, 16 March 2009	2,239 × 1,429 (77 KB)	Eraserhead1	mixed source should now fit in box
	10:15, 16 March 2009	2,239 × 1,429 (77 KB)	Eraserhead1	removed accidental italics
	10:09, 16 March 2009	2,231 × 1,429 (78 KB)	Eraserhead1	Prettified colors but kept them colorblind safe, reduced Linux to 1 column, some other minor changes.
	17:19, 4 November 2008	2,556 × 1,429 (77 KB)	Brhaspati	== Summary == {{Information \|Description={{en\|1=A diagram showing the key Unix and Unix-like operating systems}} \|Source=[http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html Levenez Unix History Diagram], [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/it-schenk1/schenk3
	13:01, 9 July 2008	2,556 × 1,429 (77 KB)	Eraserhead1	Removed Arrows
	12:56, 9 July 2008	2,556 × 1,429 (80 KB)	Eraserhead1	Minix split back up into major versions, arrows added, some additional links added from the original source
	16:05, 8 July 2008	2,556 × 1,439 (75 KB)	Eraserhead1	Including changes suggested by 90.35.47.104 and minor formatting changes
	00:32, 8 July 2008	2,512 × 1,331 (131 KB)	CarolSpears	uploaded at this request Commons:Help_desk#image_move_request for User:Infinity0
	08:58, 3 July 2008	2,070 × 1,429 (61 KB)	Eraserhead1	Dates on LHS don't overlap
	08:56, 3 July 2008	2,054 × 1,429 (61 KB)	Eraserhead1	Font size of text increased, other minor changes
	21:39, 2 July 2008	2,040 × 1,429 (61 KB)	Eraserhead1	({{Information \|Description=Diagram Showing the history of Unix and the current major Unix OS's \|Source=Own work, information from http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html \|Date=2nd July 2008 \|Author=User:Eraserhead1 \|Permission= \|other_versions= }})
	09:51, 1 July 2008	651 × 1,260 (58 KB)	Camje lemon~commonswiki	Reverted to version as of 19:51, 2 March 2008 -- Please create another picture
	07:42, 27 June 2008	1,885 × 1,426 (55 KB)	Eraserhead1	{{Information \|Description=Diagram Showing the history of Unix and the current major Unix OS's \|Source=Own work, information from http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html \|Date=27th June 2008 \|Author=Eraserhead1 \|Permission= \|other_versions= }}
	19:51, 2 March 2008	651 × 1,260 (58 KB)	Camje lemon~commonswiki	Copyright (c) 2008 Jean-Baptiste Campesato and David J. du Colombier
	12:18, 6 April 2007	750 × 1,350 (94 KB)	Prolineserver	transparence
	12:17, 6 April 2007	750 × 1,350 (94 KB)	Prolineserver	fixed size
	10:38, 18 March 2007	697 × 1,260 (57 KB)	Camje lemon~commonswiki	Copyright (c) 2007 Jean-Baptiste Campesato