From: Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: the wheel of reincarnation goes sideways
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2023 09:55:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0e0064dae74c2275ca50ac6453457eef@bl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08ed6c3a-f2d3-590c-7de4-e01164271da1@tnetconsulting.net>
On 2023-07-05 18:58, Grant Taylor via COFF wrote:
> On 7/5/23 4:48 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> I thought some folks here might find this interesting. Someone else
>> today reminded me of tilde.town, which is a publicly accessible
>> machine running Linux. They have a shocking amount of use:
>
> O.o?
>
>> tilde% hostname
>> tilde.town
>> tilde% uname -a
>> Linux tilde.town 5.15.0-58-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 5 11:43:13
>> UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> tilde% uptime
>> 21:38:01 up 156 days, 17:15, 454 users, load average: 3.82, 4.40,
>> 4.19
>> tilde%
>
> Well I'll be. Someone is running a multi-user Unix system. That's
> something I've always wanted to do or find someone doing.
>
>> Not quite a thousand users logged in simultaneously, but half that. If
>> one counts the number of processes associated with pseudoterminals,
>> it's more (I guess a lot of users are running tmux and/or screen).
There's also nyx.net. I've had an account with them since it was
nyx.cs.du.edu
and was run on a Sun Sparcstation 10 and a Sparcstation 2 running SunOS
4.1.x.
At some point in the late 90s/early 2000s, they moved to x86 systems
running
Linux. Looks like it has been running in AWS since 2016 or so.
Currently is
running on Ubuntu 20.04. Near as I can tell, they are still accepting
new signups.
I've been running this domain (bl.org) as a multi-user system for
friends and
family for a few decades. Started out on my Amiga 3000 running NetBSD
1.6 hanging
off my ISDN line at home, then a friend donated his DEC Multia/Alpha
system to the
cause. When I changed jobs and lost the ISDN, I found a local colo and
built a 1U
x86 system which lasted for a few years, bouncing between colos as I
found better
deals, and is now a VM with Linode, still running NetBSD (8.1, need to
update it one
of these days). I think I'm down to about 3 active users these days,
peaked at about
maybe 8-10. Most of my users just use me for pop/imap/web mail that
isn't one of the
major free providers, though I also provide primary/secondary DNS and MX
for a few
domains run by friends.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-09 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2023-03-08 19:52 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-03-08 20:18 ` [COFF] " Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF
2023-03-09 1:22 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " John Cowan
2023-03-09 19:55 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-09 20:09 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-11 20:32 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-11 23:28 ` Bakul Shah
[not found] ` <ZA+gxAePDMWK6StD@straylight.ringlet.net>
2023-03-13 22:34 ` Dan Cross
2023-07-05 21:48 ` Dan Cross
2023-07-05 23:58 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-07-06 1:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-07-06 16:47 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-07-06 2:35 ` Dan Cross
2023-07-06 4:18 ` Robert Stanford via COFF
2023-07-06 16:53 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-07-06 17:54 ` Adam Thornton
2023-07-09 14:55 ` Michael Parson [this message]
2023-08-01 9:52 ` Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2023-08-01 9:49 ` Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2023-08-01 15:55 ` Dan Cross
2023-08-01 16:27 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-08-02 16:07 ` Dan Cross
2023-08-02 20:58 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-08-02 21:16 ` Dan Cross
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