[from ‘berserk’, via the name of a now-deceased record
label; poss. originated by famed columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion
of Berkeley
used esp. to refer to the practices or products
of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Berkeley Quality Software.
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.