Berkeley Software Distribution Timeline | README

• Copyright (C) 2010 Donjan Rodic
• Copyright (C) 2016-2022 Fabio Loli

Released under a BSD 2-clause like license as found in the LICENSE file

Original source: https://futurist.se/gldt/2010/09/20/bsd-timeline-up-for-grabs/

Current source: https://github.com/FabioLolix/BSD-timeline

CONTRIBUTING

See CONTRIBUTING

Installation

If you want to build your own version, make sure you have gnuclad installed.

To install gnuclad, you can download the source at:

https://github.com/FabioLolix/gnuclad/archive/refs/tags/0.2.4.p1.tar.gz

or the original source at:

https://launchpad.net/gnuclad/trunk/0.2/+download/gnuclad-0.2.4.tar.gz

For Arch users, use the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnuclad/

After you have installed gnuclad, to build just the svg, run:

gnuclad bsdt.csv SVG bsdt.conf

You can run the script build.sh to build the SVG, PNG, and the tarball containing the source, ImageMagick is required to convert from SVG to PNG.

List of systems

Current focus is on modern, open and actively developed ones.

Active

• NetBSD 1993.04.20

• FreeBSD 1993.12.30

• OpenBSD 1995.10

• DragonFly 2004.07.12

• FuguIta 2005.02.21

  Formerly CD-OpenBSD

• TrueNAS 2005.10

  Formerly FreeNAS

• pfSense 2006.10.14

• MidnightBSD 2007.08.6

• BSD Router Project 2009.07.03

• GhostBSD 2010.03

• XigmaNAS 2012.03.22

  Formerly NAS4Free

• HardnedBSD 2014.09.8

• OPNsense 2015.01.2

• t1n1wall 2015.09.1

  Fork of m0n0wall

Discontinued

• FuryBSD 2020.10.31 (announcement)

  Short lived FreeBSD live media

• TrueOS 2020-03-28 (announcement)

  formerly known as PC-BSD

• RaspBSD 2017.10.17 (last release)

  Short lived FreeBSD builds for Raspberry Pi and other ARM boards

• PacBSD 2017.08.15 (last release)

  formerly known as ArchBSD

• NextBSD

  Short lived fork of FreeBSD with components ported from Darwin/OSX

• SmallWall 2016.06.23 (last release)

• MirOS 2016.01.17 (last release)

• OpenNAS 2015.12.14 (last release)

  Short lived fork of NAS4free 9.1.x

• Bitrig 2014.11.25

  One time release, OpenBSD based

• m0n0wall 2014.01.15 (last release)

• DesktopBSD 2009.09.07 (last release)

• Project Trident

• LibertyBSD

• irBSD

• comixwall

New, waiting list

• OS108

• helloSystem

• airyx

• NomadBSD

• RetroBSD

  Port of 2.11BSD Unix for microcontrollers

• hyperbolabsd

• EdgeBSD

• clonOS

• cheriBSD

• ZRouter

• UTMFW

Commercial

Paid for or with commercial support available

• TrueNAS

• pfSense Plus (pfSense gold)

• OPNsense

• OpenServer 10 (discontinued)

Other

• isotop

Releated resources

https://www.levenez.com/unix/

https://distrowatch.com/

https://archiveos.org/bsd/

https://github.com/DiscoverBSD/awesome-bsd

https://github.com/sirredbeard/Awesome-UNIX

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/share/misc/bsd-family-tree

https://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html

https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl

https://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/jrnl/2016-EMPSE-unix-history/html/unix-history.html

• Wikipedia - List of BSD operating systems

• Wikipedia - Comparison of BSD operating systems