Editing USENIX (section)

{{Short description|Organization supporting operating system research}}
{{Primary sources|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox organization
| name         = USENIX
| image        = USENIX logo.svg
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| size         = 250px
| alt          = "USENIX" in red with subtitle "The Advanced Computing Systems Association" in gray
| caption      = USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association
| formation    = {{start date and age|1975}}<ref name="salus2008">{{Cite web|url=https://www.usenix.org/legacy/about/history/index.html|title=USENIX History : Thirtieth Anniversary, USENIX Association|publisher=USENIX|access-date=2020-04-12|date=25 April 2008|quote=June 18, 1975. CUNY in Manhattan. Mel Ferentz runs the first USENIX conference. Of course, it wasn't called USENIX then, it was a UNIX users' group, until the lawyers at AT&T; got tough about that (tm). And it wasn't the first meeting, either, as Lou Katz had run a small meeting in a conference room at Columbia in May 1974. But there were "about 40 people from 20 institutions" at the 1975 meeting.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121155113/https://www.usenix.org/legacy/about/history/index.html|archive-date=21 November 2017|first=Peter H.|last=Salus|author-link=Peter H. Salus}}</ref>
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| headquarters = [[Berkeley, California]], [[United States]]
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| leader_title = President
| leader_name  = Amy Rich
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| website      = {{URL|http://www.usenix.org/}}
}}
[[File:USENIXBooth.jpg|thumb|USENIX booth at Linuxcon 2016]]

'''USENIX''' is an American [[501(c)(3) organization|501(c)(3) nonprofit]] [[membership organization]] based in [[Berkeley, California]] and founded in 1975 that supports advanced [[Computer|computing systems]], [[operating system]] (OS), and [[Computer network|computer networking]] research.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2017-04-21 |title=About USENIX |url=https://www.usenix.org/about |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=USENIX |language=en}}</ref> It organizes several conferences in these fields.<ref name=":0" />