Talk:Charlie Root

Name of the Unix superuser: sources?

Hi,

Do you have any good source to prove that Unix root user is named from him?

Cheers

Boism 23:16, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I've been around since the early days of BSD (late 70's) and it was common knowledge that it was named after Charlie Root the baseball player. I don't recall who did it and exactly when it came to be, but it was just something that was everywhere. --TruckOttr 23:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer confirming that. I'm only knowing Unix since 1994 the earliest, and never heard of that. But I'm not in the USA, so I don't know your baseball players too! ;-) Boism 00:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

It appears Marshall Kirk McKusick may be the only person in the world that could shed some light on the origins of the name "Charlie Root".

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-September/098410.html
— https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ot-sudo-root-toor-and-the-descriptions.27573/#post-153582

N0099 (talk) 16:16, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

When you find out, please update the Wikipedia entry! You ought to be able to track down who made that edit in Wikipedia, and ask them for more details.

- Bob
— https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-September/098461.html

Added in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=138728302

Remove mention of BSDs in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=150851483

Totally removed in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=138728812 N0099 (talk) 16:26, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

charlie root

charlie root was my great great great uncle. my grandpa has a ball signed by babe ruth that charlie root gave to my grandpa. baseball is in my blood i plan to fallow in his foot steps and fallow my dream and play softball the rest of my life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.9.2.123 (talk) 08:53, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

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Left ignored by most baseball scholars is that after Babe Ruth's "called shot" home run in 1932 , the next batter Root faced was Lou Gehrig,who hit an even longer home run to cinch the victory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.23.5.10 (talk) 14:10, 19 June 2025 (UTC)