William Jolitz

William Frederick Jolitz (February 22, 1957 – March 2, 2022), commonly known as Bill Jolitz, was an American software engineer best known for developing the 386BSD operating system from 1989 to 1994 along with his wife Lynne Jolitz.[1]

William Frederick Jolitz
Born(1957-02-22)February 22, 1957
Muskegon, Michigan, U.S.
DiedMarch 2, 2022(2022-03-02) (aged 65)
OccupationSoftware Engineer
Notable work
Developing the 386BSD operating system

Jolitz received his BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

He and his wife resided in Los Gatos, California.[2]

On March 2, 2022 Jolitz died from sarcoma.[3] His death was announced on April 8, 2022 on The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS) mailing list. [4]

References
  1. Raymond, Eric S. (September 23, 2003). The Art of Unix Programming. Addison-Wesley Professional. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-132-46588-5.
  2. "Lynne Jolitz (official site)". Archived from the original on January 20, 2019.
  3. "386BSD". 386bsd.org. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
  4. Cole, Clem (April 8, 2022). "[TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks". Retrieved April 8, 2022.


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