About

SDF is ...

a community platform for inspiring, facilitating & implementing new ideas

The SDF Historical Society is a collective memory of the history of the SDF Public Access UNIX System from its humble beginnings in the 1980s as an Apple ][e BBS through the internet boom of the 1990s and through today. SDF primarily runs NetBSD and uses pkgsrc.

Services SDF currently offers are documented on https://sdf.org

  • Shell access, homepage, email, USENET, bboard, chat and file services
  • XEN VPS service with various host options
  • aNONradio.net community internet radio
  • Minecraft and Terraria Servers
  • Fediverse: mastodon.sdf.org / toobnix.org / pixelfed.sdf.org
  • OpenVPN services in USA, Canada, Germany and Japan

707,313 accounts have been created over the past 36 years with a current userbase of around 30,000.