[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, Missed'em-five,
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.