About this episode
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 ATCOxF s1e13: Put the OS back in OSDIBryan's Lisa 2011 talk: Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumosBryan's USENIX 2016 talk: A Wardrobe for the EmperorUSENIX 2004Gnutella not NutellaUSENIX DTrace paperUSENIX Summer 1994Slab AllocatorNFSv3WSJ 2006 Technology Innovation Awards0xF s1e18: Dijkstra's TweetstormMeeting Dennis RitchieBoF sessionBirds of a feather flock togetherFreenix20032004Rik Farrow ;login: editorial on USENIX 2016Bryan's blog 2004: Wither USENIX?
