'''Keith Bostic''' (nacido el 26 de julio de 1959) es un [[programador]] de [[Estados Unidos]].
InEn 1986, Bostic joinedse theunió a la [[:en:Computer Systems Research Group|Computer Systems Research Group]] (CSRG) aten thela [[University of California, Berkeley]]. He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases.<ref name="Dougherty">{{cite web |author=Dale Dougherty |date=2000-03-24 |title=Bostic on the BSD Tradition: An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic |url=http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/03/24/bostic.html |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc. |work=ONLamp.com: BSD DevCenter |accessdate=2008-04-05}}</ref> Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a [[free software]] version of [[BSD UNIX]], which helped allow the creation of [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]] and [[OpenBSD]].
Bostic was also one of the founders of [[Berkeley Software Design Inc.]] (BSDi),<ref name="Dougherty" /> which produced [[BSD/OS]], a proprietary version of BSD.
