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SDF public access Unix system, online since 1987●SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987Yhn Science Space Policy10533 min ago
SDF, the oldest public access Unix system in the United States, founded in 1987, is drawing renewed attention. The nonprofit service offers free Unix shell accounts, web hosting and a membership community to anyone with an internet connection, running for decades as a volunteer-driven alternative to commercial platforms. Commenters are praising its longevity and its role in internet history, with many reminiscing about early shell accounts and questioning why similar community-run systems remain rare today.
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OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils Port●OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils CoreutilsYhn Culture Music317 min ago
OpenBSD developers have declined to adopt the Uutils Coreutils port, citing licensing and compatibility concerns. The Rust-based rewrite of GNU coreutils has been gaining traction across Linux distributions, but the OpenBSD project decided it does not fit its requirements. The decision has sparked discussion among developers about licensing, code quality and the trade-offs of replacing long-standing Unix tools with reimplementations.