9 Jul
2023
9 Jul
'23
8:55 p.m.
On 2023-07-05 18:58, Grant Taylor via COFF wrote:
On 7/5/23 4:48 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
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
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).