Lynne Greer Jolitz (born June 30, 1961) is a figure in
free software
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and founder of many startups in
Silicon Valley
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. Together with her husband
William
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, she created
386BSD
386BSD (also known as "Jolix") is a discontinued Unix operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was released in 1992 and ran on PC-compatible computer systems based on the 32-bit Intel 80386 microprocessor. 386BSD inn ...
, the first open-source Unix-based operating system for personal computers to be distributed over the Internet.
Jolitz is also an author and authority on operating systems and networking issues. She is an internet news media commentator discussing events in the computer industry and wrote frequently for
BYTE
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.
She also holds patents in
internet technologies
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and
semiconductor
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memory innovations, and writes technical papers and articles.
She is currently an adviser to CoolClip network, an internet startup that uses the server-based video production engine that Jolitz originally designed and tested at the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...
.
Jolitz has appeared on the Oracle E-Business Network and was presented with their Geek of the Week award for her years of work in high-speed networking and operating systems design. She also has appeared on
Dvorak's RealComputing discussing the impact of Internet
broadband
In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals at a wide range of frequencies and Internet traffic types, that enables messages to be sent simultaneously, used in fast internet connections. ...
.
She received an alumni award from the Physics Department at Berkeley for her work in alumni outreach with the department. She also is active in women's entrepreneur and technology networking groups and mentoring girls in science and technology.
She resides in
Los Gatos, California
Los Gatos (, ; ) is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population is 33,529 according to the 2020 census. It is located in the San Francisco Bay Area just southwest of San Jose in the foothills of th ...
.
References
External links
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Lynne's Take on Tech*
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www.386bsd.org Information by William and Lynne Jolitz*
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1961 births
Free software programmers
BSD people
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
21st-century American women