<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Berzerkeley</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html" title="Berkeley Quality Software"/><link rel="next" href="beta.html" title="beta"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Berzerkeley</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beta.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Berzerkeley"/><dt xmlns="" id="Berzerkeley"><b>Berzerkeley</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/b@r·zer´klee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from ‘berserk’, via the name of a now-deceased record label; poss. originated by famed columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion of “<span class="quote">Berkeley</span>” used esp. to refer to the practices or products of the <a href="BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> Unix hackers. See <a href="../S/software-bloat.html"><i class="glossterm">software bloat</i></a>, <a href="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html"><i class="glossterm">Berkeley Quality Software</i></a>.</p><p>Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beta.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Berkeley Quality Software </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> beta</td></tr></table></div></body></html>