SDF – Public Access Unix System

I received this email from them in January. HN might find it interesting: SDF Celebrates 30 years of service in 2017! On June 16th, 1987 Ted Uhlemann (handle: charmin, later iczer) connected his Apple ][e's 300 baud modem to the phone line his mother had just given him for his birthday. He had published the number the night before on as many BBSes around the Dallas Ft. Worth area that he could and he waited for the first caller. He…

This may be the appropriate place to gratefully mention Polarhome (http://www.polarhome.com/), that for many years managed a "dinosaur zoo" of ageing Unix systems, on which one could buy a login for a nominal fee. Very convenient for me as developer of a portable Unix utility (rlwrap) - it allowed me to spot many portability problems (often real bugs that manifested themselves only on certain systems). Sadly, Polarhome has thrown in the towel. Does anyone know of something comparable, i.e. not…

It seems that this server has not been updated since 2010, except for some small update in 2013: http://sdf.org/?software Or, is it just that documentation website which is outdated?

Here's the status report: https://status.sdf.org/status/ Mon Jul 1 13:20:49 UTC 2019 the main cluster raid filesystem has developed inconsistencies and is currently being repaired. This will take some time, thank you for your patience. In Progress