Thanks to Cynthia Deno
for this link.
1999 USENIX Annual Technical
Conference
June 6-11, 1999
Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California
Web site: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99
New *BSD and Debian Linux Releases Given
Away
USENIX is providing grants to the OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and
Debian Linux development projects, to support each of them in
issuing new releases. The releases-OpenBSD 2.5, FreeBSD 3.2, NetBSD
1.4 and Debian 2.2-will be distributed through usual channels, and,
as a bonus, will be given to USENIX Annual Conference technical
session attendees.
Linus Torvalds Leading a BOF; Richard Stallman
Can’t Attend
The FREENIX track is devoted to high-level technical discussion of
open source software. Peer-refereed papers, expert talks, and
evening sessions will be led by leading OSS developers including
Linus Torvalds, Kirk McKusick, Theodore Ts’o, Theo de Raadt, and
Robert J. Chassell for Free Software Foundation/GNU. (Richard
Stallman had planned to lead a BoF but will be in Turkey on FSF
business.)
Other Highlights
- The Keynote by John Ousterhout, creator of Tcl/TK, speaking on
a - fundamental shift in software development to applications
created by - extending existing applications, protocols, frameworks, and
devices. - Refereed papers on topics of especially high interest:
management of resource systems, file systems, virtual memory
systems, storage systems, security, web server performance and O/S
performance. - Invited talks concentrate on the extremely practical: UNIX/Open
System & Y2K, IP Multicast, E-mail Bombs, IPv6,IP
Telephony. - 24 tutorials are being offered over three days, with Eric
Allman, TomChristiansen, Peter Galvin, Evi Nemeth, and Marcus Ranum
among theinstructors. - And, as always, lots of discussion in the halls and over beers.
This year, there?s a Reception in the fantastic Monterey Bay
Aquarium.
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USENIX, founded twenty-five years ago, is the Advanced Computing
Systems Association. Its members are the computer technologists
responsible for many of the innovations in computing we enjoy
today. To find out more, visit our web site: http://www.usenix.org