Editing Computer Systems Research Group (section)

==Legacy==

CSRG left a significant legacy.

[[FreeBSD]], [[OpenBSD]], [[NetBSD]], and [[DragonFly BSD]] are based on the 4.4BSD-Lite distribution and continue to play an important role in the open-source UNIX community today, including dictating the formatting style of [[C (programming language)|C]] source code in their kernels.  This style is known as [[Indentation_style#BSD_KNF|KNF (Kernel Normal Form)]] and is documented in
BSD's style(9)<ref>{{Citation
|url=https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+14.2-RELEASE+and+Ports
|publisher=the FreeBSD project
|title=style(9), FreeBSD 13.2 Kernel Developer's Manual
|date=April 26, 2024
|accessdate=2025-04-20
}}</ref>
[[man page]].

Alongside the [[Free Software Foundation]] and [[Linux]], the CSRG laid the foundations of the [[Open-source software|open source]] community.

Former members include [[Keith Bostic (software engineer)|Keith Bostic]], [[Bill Joy]], [[Marshall Kirk McKusick]], [[Samuel J. Leffler]], [[Özalp Babaoğlu]] and [[Michael J. Karels]], among others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.netbsd.org/people/CSRG-contrib.html |title=The Computer Systems Research Group 1979 — 1993}}</ref> The corporations [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Berkeley Software Design]] and [[Sleepycat Software]] (later acquired by [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]]) can be considered spin-off companies of CSRG. [[Berkeley Software Design]] was led by [[Robert Kolstad]], who led the development of BSD Unix for supercomputers at [[Convex Computer]].