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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

Source

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