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OpenBSD

OpenBSD was forked from NetBSD, not directly from 4.3 as this diagram implies. Hairy Dude (talk) 21:08, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Solaris

Solaris was forked from AT&T System V, not directly from the BSD-based SunOS as this diagram implies. User:J Greg D, 30 December 2009 —Preceding undated comment added 07:49, 31 December 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Yes, this is a long-standing bug in this diagram. Sun did try to add to the confusion by calling the old SunOS 4.x "Solaris 1" and starting the numbering of the SVR4-based release as Solaris 2.0 (and sometimes calling it SunOS 5, but do not think that ever stuck). Also a bug is the (Stanford) for SunOS. It had nothing to do with Stanford whatsoever. Bil Joy came from UC Berkeley to Sun. Stanford did the V-System instead. Citations in articles. IRIX is also confusing, since the network stack was BSD's, not System V. Most were amalgams of the two anyway. W Nowicki (talk) 01:28, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the company name "Sun" was an acronym for "Stanford University Network", a point that was made clear during Employee Orientation to every new Sun employee who did not already know it. the company's first product, the SUN workstation, was based on a workstation designed at Stanford by Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, and named after the Stanford University Network. Having had the concept of "the Network is the Computer" from the start, Sun briefly considered giving the second board revision's OS (4.2BSD for 68010; the first was Unisoft V7 for a dual 68000 interim design) the name NOS (Network Operating System), but NOS was already trademarked by CDC. SunOS was then chosen as a union of the names "Stanford University Network" and "Network Operating System".Mabloom (talk) 07:11, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Missing much information

This image could be clearer if there was an explanation of the numbers appearing by some OS names, the significance of the different colors, the difference between the relationships of a solid line and a dotted line, and the meaning (if any) in the distinction between a box (such as for GNU/Linux) and a horizontal line (such as for GNU/Hurd). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.155.16.114 (talk) 21:21, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree! --Isacdaavid (talk) 01:17, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NetBSD/FreeBSD

NetBSD was released prior to FreeBSD, as noted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD: "NetBSD 0.8, was made in April, 1993"; "the first official release was FreeBSD 1.0, available via FTP on November 1, 1993"

An updated SVG is available here: http://www.netmeister.org/Unix_history.svg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.38.139.33 (talk) 03:42, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done

GNU mistake

One box is labeled "GNU Project". The other boxes contain names of operating systems. The GNU Project refers to the group of people who were working on the operating system named "GNU". So, the text "GNU Project" should be replaced with "GNU" to make it consistent with the rest. 184.78.155.105 (talk) 07:38, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Isacdaavid (talk) 02:21, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on Wikimedia Commons

Please write any further comments on the Commons page for this image, which is located at commons:File:Unix_history.svg. That's the place where the file actually lies. Commons provides a unified repository for media used across Wikipedias in different languages and other projects. --Isacdaavid (talk) 20:48, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]