dspinellis/unix-history-repo resource
Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
59/100
- Activity 60
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4429
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 240
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
7250 stars · 500 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
A Git repository reconstructing the continuous commit history of the Unix operating system from 1970 to today, synthesized from 22 snapshots of Bell Labs, Berkeley, 386BSD, and FreeBSD sources. It contains roughly 850 thousand commits and 2700 identified contributors, intended for empirical software engineering research and software archaeology.
Use cases
- study the evolution of Unix source code over five decades
- run git blame and git log on historical Unix files
- mine commit data for empirical software engineering research
- explore how BSD and FreeBSD evolved from early Unix
- trace authorship attribution across Unix history
- archive or fork a replicable snapshot of Unix history
When to choose
- you need a continuous versioned timeline of Unix source code history
- you are doing software archaeology or empirical research on long-lived systems
- you want to explore historical Unix releases with standard Git tooling
When to avoid
- you need a runnable Unix operating system rather than a historical dataset
- you want to contribute code changes to Unix or FreeBSD itself
- you cannot handle a multi-gigabyte repository
Facets
dataset · maturity active
version-control developer-tools data-science operating-systems version-control developer-tools cross-platform windows unix-history git-repository software-archaeology freebsd bsd bell-labs empirical-research operating-system-history history linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo · fetched 2026-08-28 · cfbfbfb730e5
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| dspinellis/unix-history-repo | main | 59 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="dspinellis/unix-history-repo")
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