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What Do You Use SDF For? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am enamored with the idea of SDF, and I think it is an important part of computing history and the present. That being said, I am curious as to whether anyone actually finds it useful—aside from the fact that it hosts the instance!!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Back in the days, I used the SDF free unix shell, which helped me alot to learn more about UNIX basics, and motivated me to iterate my first franken-homelab with bits of old laptops and desktops. If I'm an happy sysadmin nowadays, it's part thanks to SDF.

Then with a bunch of good friends we started our non-profit ISP (circa 2010) and diversified the services we offer to our users (VPS, VPNs, shells, Wiki, BBB, "cloud" (ahem) storage, monthly tutorials and workshops...). Nowadays we have half a rack of servers, and, home-side, my homelab grew (although it's still a franken-lab with NUCs, old desktops and one "real" server). Once again, thanks to SDF for igniting the spark which gave us the will to start our own community of kind and pasionnate people.

With the current reddit debacle, although I don't use SDF services nowadays, I was happy to see that SDF hosts a lemmy instance, because I know the values of the SDF community. So, thank you - again - SDF!