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Awesome Unix/Linux History (Including Family Tree)!
levenez.com — This site has the greatest time-line I think I've ever seen compiled to date. Including the history and links of some of the OS's listed, not all but a great page to see the history of the Unix/*Nix distributions you love! Not just the image posted previously!
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- AcidBath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It is a lot harder to read than the image posted before too.
Still pretty neat though.
The website looks very 1996 though :-p- TheBigBrother, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Yeah, It'd be real cool if someone could "ajaxify" the family tree so it could be live searched and you could trace the roots of your OS easier
- krewemaynard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Somewhere I have that lineage printed and laminated up through about 2002. Used it when I was teaching. Excellent image.
- AMCer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Um, Linux did NOT come from Minix as the charts show... Linus and Andy have both confirmed this.
I wonder how many other errors are on there...- uzusan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You could say thought that Linux was influenced by minix (though not a direct derivative of).
as Linus said:
"I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system(due to practical reasons)
among other things)."
from : https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/linux/
So it came about from his opinion of shortcomings in minix etc. Id say that was enough to allow a link between minix and Linux.
Great chart though regardless. - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone know why July 18, 93 Linux has a line from plan9?
- agarvin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Linux neither derived nor took any code from Minix, but Minix was the primary initial influence on Linux. The first 10 versions of the Linux kernel could only be compiled in Minix, and required Minix to get up and running. For the first 8 months, almost all public discussion of linux on usenet was on the minix groups. A lot of code from Minix hackers (for instance, Glen Overby) ended up in the early Linux kernel: Minix's license at the time did not allow restribution of modified code; additions by people other than Tannenbaum were supplied via patches. A lot of these additions found their way into the Linux kernel. They technically weren't Minix, but most Minix users who wanted a more functional system ran them. Linux used the Minix filesystem until kernel 0.96!
The vertical arrows on the UNIX timeline show both influences. Minix was a huge influence on Linux.
ATG
(UNIX user since 1987, Minix user since 1990, Linux user since 1992)
- uzusan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You could say thought that Linux was influenced by minix (though not a direct derivative of).
- dbloodnok, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Looking at the homepage links at the bottom of the page, it's clear that Linus needs a beard before his toy kernel is taken seriously. Preferably a neckbeard.
- Twango, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Amazing work. I'm speechless except for the question: why?
- micro506, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You should know better than to ask that question on digg.
- g4dualie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The charts are awesome.
TIP—
If you download the EPS file entitled Plotter and open it with Acrobat Distiller, it will convert the file into one long continuous horizontal document that is fully searchable.
The resulting PDF document also looks terrific when you zoom in 6400 percent! - hurfydurfur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So old but +digg anyway. From the ChangeLog: 2000-07-01 : Creation.
- dbloodnok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, but the most recent entry is 20-Sep-2006.
- cwilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is a great find! Granted, it is difficult to follow because there is an awful lot going on, but it's fun to try and track the life of your favorite OS. Definitely Dugg!
- underdog5004, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3yeah, I'd like to second the whole "linux is not from minix" motion...but I guess that's already been covered...
-Matthew - cezar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Every time I see this it's always too low of a resolution to read clearly.
- flash200, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Linux distro timeline:
http://www.kde-files.org/content/files/44218-linuxdistrotimeline-6.8.2.png- zefiris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1now thats going on my wall...
- ePlus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Ummm... Where's Windows?!
/sarcasm- SimonC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Here: http://www.levenez.com/windows/
- blamanj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To be fair, it ought to include some reference to MULTICS, one of the original inspirations for Unix, and a pioneering OS in terms of: memory-mapped file i/o, dynamic linking, hierarchical file system, ring-oriented security, multiple processors and more, starting back in 1964.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MULTICS- DonPMitchell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The non-UNIX timeline is interesting too, a lot of information about the dozens of operating systems before UNIX is quite hard to find. His non-UNIX chart is not very accurate or complete though.
There is a lot of MIT revisionist history in these charts too. I was at Bell Labs from 1981 on, and the reverberations of their bad relationship with MIT was still very evident. Somehow, the AI Lab folks seemed to feel that UNIX had wiped out their plans for world domination via LISP and some vague notion of an operating system they would oneday right. Many people forget that GNU was originally an anti-UNIX movement.
The non-UNIX chart also makes it appear that MIT's CTSS is the grandfather of all modern operating systems. That's a joke. It is the grandfather of IBM's horrendous time sharing systems, which I had the misfortune of using in the late 1970s. The chart fails to mention the Dartmouth TS system, which was vastly more important than CTSS and formed the basis of KRONOS and many other successful timesharing systems, and also introduced the BASIC language.
ITS is listed as a precursor to UNIX. If Ken was dead, he would roll in his grave over that. Nobody at MIT wanted to run ITS, it was absolutely aweful. Even the MIT AI and Macsyma machine ran Tops-10. Also, long forgotten was how bad MULTICS was. IBM and Bell Labs withdrew from the project because MULTICS was so badlyprogrammed that it could only support two simultaneous users!
- DonPMitchell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The non-UNIX timeline is interesting too, a lot of information about the dozens of operating systems before UNIX is quite hard to find. His non-UNIX chart is not very accurate or complete though.
- uncleFester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2alas, the tru64 line is incomplete; they're up to 5.1B-3. Granted, it's technically 'dead' but hey...
-r (who still plays with tru64 on occasion..) - MaXiMuM32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That was far more information than i expected. Almost got dizzy going through all of them.
- FastZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. That's pretty cool.
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