Lynne Jolitz - Citizendia

Lynne Greer Jolitz is an important figure in free software and founded many startups in Silicon Valley with her husband William. Free software or software libre is Software that can be used studied and modified without restriction and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified For the valley nicknamed "Silicone Valley" see San Fernando Valley. William Frederick (Bill Jolitz (born 1957 commonly known as Bill Jolitz, is best known for developing the 386BSD Operating system from 1989 to 1994

Lynne Jolitz is probably most famous for her work in pioneering open source operating systems with 386BSD with her husband. 386BSD, sometimes called " JOLIX " is a free BSD Unix Operating system for PC compatible computer systems based She has founded startup companies that involve workstations to companies in Internet multimedia. A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or Engineering workstation, is a high-end Microcomputer

Lynne is also a noted author and authority on operating systems and networking issues. Lynne is an internet news media commentator discussing events in the computer industry and writes frequently for Byte.

She also holds patents in internet technologies and semiconductor memory innovations, and writes technical papers and articles. The Internet Protocol Suite (commonly TCP/IP) is the set of Communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks A semiconductor' is a Solid material that has Electrical conductivity in between a conductor and an insulator; it can vary over that

She currently is the Chief Technology Officer of ExecProducer, a company specializing in massive video production and deployment

Lynne 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. Lynne also has appeared on Dvorak’s RealComputing discussing the impact of Internet broadband. The term broadband can have different meanings in different contexts

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.

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