Keith Bostic
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'''Keith Bostic''' is a [[computer programmer]] from the [[United States]].
Bostic was a member of the [[Computer Systems Research Group]] (CSRG) at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], who created [[BSD UNIX]].
Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a [[free software]] version of BSD, which helped allow the creation of [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]] and [[OpenBSD]]. BSD has also influenced and been influenced by both other Unix variants and other [[Unix-like]] operating systems, such as [[Linux]].
Bostic worked at [[Berkeley Software Design]], who produced [[BSD/OS]] (also known as ''BSDi''), a commercial version of BSD.
Bostic is the author of [[nvi]].
He works at [[Oracle Corporation]] as the result of Oracle's acquisition of [[Sleepycat Software]], the developer of [[Berkeley DB]]. As of Feb. 19, 2008, his last day of work at Oracle is expected to be Feb. 29, 2008.
==External links==
* [http://www.bostic.com/keith.html Keith Bostic's homepage]
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