Still going strong. I started there when they were still on DEC alphas.

"this page was generated using ksh, sed and awk"

Previously...

SDF Public Access Unix System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32340635 - Aug 2022 (29 comments)

SDF Public Access Unix System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31076886 - April 2022 (46 comments)

SDF Public Access Unix System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14940790 - Aug 2017 (29 comments)

SDF – Public Access Unix System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14134798 - April 2017 (51 comments)

Yesterday was NetBSD's 33rd Birthday. Nice time to share it :)

Longtime SDF user. I have one of their 30th anniversary stickers on my Dell laptop. It's the only sticker I have deemed cool enough to have ever had, on any laptop.

https://sdf.org/store/?3;sdf41

A great webhost, too. You can log in and edit html/index.html directly or scp stuff up.

From the FAQ: "What is SDF"

> While we did initially start out on a single computer in 1987, the

> SDF is now a network of 8 64bit enterprise class servers running

> NetBSD realising a combined processing power of over 21.1 GFLOPS!

Which piqued my interest about how that compares to today's computers. nVidia's venerable 1080Ti from 2017 measures about 11300 GFLOPS, or 11.3 teraFLOPS. About a fifty times increase.

Excellent Pubnix! I just wish SDF would fix their LE-SSL for validated accounts. I ran mkhomepg -p and -a a week ago and the SSL cert delivered with my sdf subdomain still is for rie.sdf.org. I‘m just gonna be patient. :-)

I had an account there years ago but never really saw the point. I was already SSHing in from a shell, just to end up at another, different one. Kind of whimsical I guess, but ultimately of scant practical use.

Omg, we can access even ancient OSes, this is amazing!

I've been on it forever, it's such a great resource