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Why are GNU/Linux and Minix included in the chart? They share no lineage with UNIX-PDP7. Also, where is OSF/1 and AIX?

And XNU? the XNU Kernel has more in common than the Linux Kernel. Madd the sane 05:00, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello,
I think you used http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Unix_history-simple.png (There are the same Unixes, the same dates, the same links, the same separation of GNU (which is special), and you modified the page...), so you have to respect the licence:
Unix_history-simple.png is under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 and you have to put the author's name.
Remember that the original author works probably hard to verify the informations and to sort them...
(Same problem at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Unix_history-simple1.png)
Thanks.
For the previous messages, GNU, Linux and Minix were included because some (stupid...?) persons asked the original author to add them (see discussion pages). For OSF/1 we haven't found any precise date, AIX didn't have a historical role, there are many proprietary unixes based on System V...
Cordially.
PS: please correct Unix Time Sharing System by Unix Time-Sharing System (with a dash), and replace NetBsd 1.3 by NetBSD 1.3. You can also update with the last OpenBSD (4.0 in 2006) and last NetBSD (3.1 in 2006)