RIP USENIX ATC
Bryan and Adam discuss the recent announcement of the discontinuation of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), reminiscing about their own visits to the ATC and the impact of the conference. Long-time Oxide Friend, Tom Lyon, joined to dial the reminiscence back a couple more decades!
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Tom Lyon.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Bryan's blog 2025: RIP USENIX ATC
OxF s1e13: Put the OS back in OSDI
Bryan's Lisa 2011 talk: Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
Bryan's USENIX 2016 talk: A…
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