下面是一个简单的Unix的族谱： 
     |--AT&T (1969)-----\
     |                  |
     |              V6 (1976)
     |                  |
     |              V7 (1979)
     |                  |
     |   Novell owns AT&T's Unix (by 1994)
     |     _____________|____________________
     |     |       |      |        |         |
     |    AIX    IRIX    SCO   HP-UX   Solaris 2.X
     |   (IBM)   (SGI)          (HP)     (Sun)
     |
     |
     |--Berkley (1977)-----\
     |                     |
     |                  1BSD (1977)
UNIX-|                     |
     |                4.4BSD (1993)
     |                     |
     |                   Net/2
     |                     |
     |               4.4BSD-Lite (by 1995)
     |     ________________|____________________________________
     |     |       |          |         |          |            |
     |   SunOS   Ultrix   NetBSD    OSF/1   NeXTSTEP   Mac OS X
     |   (Sun)   (DEC)   (Various)  (DEC)    (NeXT)    (Apple)
     |                   (FreeBSD)
     |
     |
     |--Hybrids----\
                   |
                Linux (Various)
                   |
                   |____________________________________________
                   |    |      |          |              |      |
                   | RedHat  Debian  Mandrake   Slackware    S.u.S.E.
                   |                          (Walnut Creek)
                   |
                   |_____________________________________________
                       |        |           |          |        |
                    MkLinux  LinuxPPC  TurboLinux  OpenLinux  CorelLinux
                    (Apple)                        (Caldera)   (Corel)
Linux所有发行版的时间线(图片太大，请保存浏览):