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The BSD Family Tree

Posted by Hemos on from the learning-about-it-all dept.

A reader writes: "Every time BSD gets mentioned on Slashdot, the usual round of questions get asked. Most queries want to know what the differences in the BSDs are. For the April DaemonNews, James Howard has written the answer."

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  1. Re:Before everyone else says it... by howardjp · · Score: 4

    SecureBSD and TrustedBSD are really just extensions to FreeBSD. Similarly, RTMX is a set of extenstions to OpenBSD. I didn't think it would be good to include them in this. Addtionally, with BSD/OS effectively merging with FreeBSD, I didn't include it either. However, it gives me an idea for a new article... :)

  2. Re:A correction about NeXTStep by maggard · · Score: 3
    Same thing annotated:

    1. NeXTSTEP 0.8 Oct. 12 1988 - First running version of NeXTSTEP
    2. NeXTSTEP 1.0 Sep. 18 1989
    3. NeXTSTEP 2.0 Sep. 18 1990
    4. NeXTSTEP 2.1 Mar. 25, 1991
    5. NeXTSTEP 3.3 Feb. 1995
    6. OpenStep 4 1996 - Ported to multiple architectures
    7. Rhapsody DR1 Sep. 1997 - After buying Apple for -400 million this is the new direction, to run on both PPC & Wintel
    8. Rhapsody DR2 May 1998 - Last release, developers revolt & threaten to abandon Mac, rethink already under way.
    9. Darwin 0.1 Mar. 16, 1999 - Apple breaks new ground Open Sourcing core of their next-gen OS, to run on PPC & x86
    10. MacOS X Server 1.0 Mar. 16, 1999 - First commercial release, Rhapsody-derived, PPC only
    11. MacOS X (DP1) May 10, 1999 - Retooled next-gen OS, to include backwards-compatibility, PPC only
    12. Darwin 0.2 May 13, 1999
    13. MacOS X Server 1.02 Jul. 22, 1999
    14. Darwin 0.3 Aug. 16, 1999
    15. MacOS X (DP2) Nov. 10, 1999
    16. MacOS X Server 1.2 Jan. 14, 2000
    17. MacOS X (DP3) Feb. 14, 2000
    18. Darwin 1.0 Apr. 5, 2000
    19. Darwin 1.1 May 15, 2000
    20. MacOS X (DP4) May 15, 2000
    21. MacOS X (beta) Sept. 13, 2000
    22. MacOS X Server 1.2v3 Oct. 27, 2000 - Likely last release of Rhapsody-derived server
    23. Darwin 1.21 Nov. 15, 2000
    24. MacOS X 10.0 Mar. 24, 2001 - First commercial release of new MacOS X
    25. ?MacOS X Server 10.0? ~ April 24, 2001
    26. ?MacOS X 10.n? ~ July, 2001 - First release installed on hardware
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  3. A correction about NeXTStep by Noer · · Score: 4

    a minor correction...

    "NeXT eventually quit making hardware and implemented NeXTStep for other operating systems, changing the name to OpenStep. "

    Actually, NeXTSTEP was the OS, as i recall, and its name was changed to OPENSTEP when it was ported to Intel hardware. NeXTStep was the set of frameworks for rapid app development, which was called OpenStep on OPENSTEP as well as on the other operating systems on which it ran, such as Solaris and Windows NT.

    This is pure nitpicking, and I don't mean to detract from a really excellent article. But NeXT Inc's product line was always a bizarre confusion of different capitalizations; I may not have it quite right either.

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  4. How about a graphical history... by scum-e-bag · · Score: 3

    How about a graphical history... and also include unix, linux, blah, blah, blah...

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