"USENIX: the Advanced Computing Systems Association allows technicians, scientists, systems administrators and engineers to share information on developments in the field of computer science."
–Joab Jackson,
GCN, 7.1.08

"The interactive session was designed to help the sysadmins in attendance solve their most pressing data center challenges, and some creative solutions were thrown around."
–Bridget Botelho,
TechTarget, 6.27.08

"The USENIX LEET workshop held earlier this week in San Francisco offered neat insights into the Storm botnet, including two papers showing the difficulty of accurately measuring the botnet's size, and one on the way it conducts its spamming campaigns (down to the template language used). There was a bunch of other cool work too, so check out the papers."
–Slashdot, 4.17.08

"The annual USENIX security symposium is a gathering place for all kinds of ideas: those on how to stop security flaws and those about what kinds of new security issues may emerge in the future."
–Jeremy Reimer,
Ars Technica, 7.11.07

"Two bombshell papers released at the USENIX FAST '07 (File and Storage Technology) conference this week bring a welcome dose of reality to the basic building block of storage: the disk drive."
–Robin Harris,
Computerworld, 2.21.07

"The 20th annual LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference was held in Washington DC this year, from December 3rd to December 8th, continuing its tradition of excellent speakers, thought provoking side-topics and an all-around good time."
–Charlie Schluting,
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.com, 12.14.06

"[T]he number of famous and significant leaders in the Unix and free software world I saw walking the hallways was impressive, and the line-up on the podiums was even more so."
–Andy Oram,
O'Reilly Media, 06.02.06

"Some of the best Internet minds in the world met last week to discuss a wide range of methods to rid the Web of malicious traffic. The USENIX invitation-only workshop, called Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI), brought together more than 50 academics from all over the world as well as technical staff from equipment vendors and ISPs to develop methods to cut down on spam, viruses, worms and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks - methods that are practical at an operational level."
–Tim Greene,
ARNnet, 07.11.05

"USENIX conferences are not to be missed. The meetings were open technically, had topics that were well-thought out and ultimately created an environment of serious discussion. It's a great privilege to be with over 900 of the best and the brightest of technology."
–George Rosamond,
Dæmon News, 07.04

"A respected computer users group has begun lobbying Congress to ignore arguments against open-source software made by Unix vendor The SCO Group."
–Robert McMillan,
InfoWorld, 02.27.04

"[T]he quality and quantity of thoughtful and innovative work being demonstrated at BSDCon is nothing short of astonishing."
–Michael W. Lucas,
Dæmon News, 09.03

"Large-scale systems must be secured from the bottom up with a layered approach of separately protecting the Internet, network system and site levels of activity, Akamai chief security architect Andrew Ellis said at the Usenix Security Symposium in Washington..."
–Warren's Washington Internet Daily,
08.07.03

"One of my favorite conferences of the year is coming up. It's the USENIX [Annual] Technical Conference....The great thing about USENIX is it's not only Linux and free software. People with deep knowledge of both free and proprietary software attend. The result is neither free software world domination hype nor proprietary FUD stand a chance in the blazing light of USENIX scrutiny."
–Don Marti, Editor in Chief, Linux Journal, 05.29.03