This is a shared, member contributed, set of tutorials for existing and potential SDF users who are interested in the INTERNET, the UNIX operating system, and programming languages. The purpose of this wiki is to help new users learn about the SDF Public Access UNIX System and UNIX through practical and useful examples.

Initially, this was a subset of the information from the HTML¹⁾ tutorials at sdf.org → tutorials.

It's expected that the SDF.org wiki content will grow and change. If you have SDF wiki access, please write additional tutorials, migrate traditional tutorial content updates/changes, or port new upcoming traditional tutorial content. If you aren't familiar with wikis, here are some instructions to help get you started. Copies of the SDF traditional tutorial import data ²⁾ was kindly provided by contributing members of SDF.

If you would like to be able to edit this tutorial wiki, email membership@sdf.org (mailto link).

• Tutorials for General Use of SDF – includes basic tutorials; the most basic: finding help!
• Email – description of Email at SDF and tutorials
• Accessing Web Spaces – browsers for surfing the different webs from SDF shell–WWW, gopher, gemini
• Creating your own Internet Web sites on SDF:
  • WWW Website Setup and Hosting Features
  • Gopher Site Setup and Hosting Features
  • Gemini Site Setup and Hosting Features
  • Using the SDF Video Gallery – PeerTube
  • Using the SDF Image Gallery
• Internet Chat Relay (IRC) on SDF
• SDF VoIP Telephony Service – VoIP
• SDF Dialup and DSL INTERNET Service
• SDF Virtual Private Server (VPS) Service (MetaARPA)
• SDF Radio! / ANONRADIO Service
• Customize Your SDF Shell Experience
• Matrix Getting with Matrix at SDF
• Mastodon and the Fediverse An introduction to Mastodon and the Fediverse
• Retro-Computing – including TWENEX and other retrocomputing environments
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs, SDF, Plan 9 / 9Front, the SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp community and TEA NOTE
• Software Development Resources – including Source Control
• SDF's META ARRAY – a group of multicore, multiraid, high performance nodes
• Wiki Authoring

• SDF Advanced Tutorials
• Port Allocation for meta users
• Terminal Multiplexing options: Screen and Tmux, also available for meta users

• Pico Cheat Sheet – pico is the default editor for bboard
• Emacs Cheatsheet – emacs is an uber-editor ³⁾ and a religion unto itself (this statement is only kind of a joke).
• ed Cheat Sheet – ed is the Tom Bombadil of editors (“Eldest” and confusing)

• Secure login to SDF from a browser
• SDF for blind users

• SDF:
  • How to Donate and why - A page to explain how and why your friends and family (or you) should help fund SDF.
  • Menu of SDF offerings
  • Spreading the word about SDF
• SDF – The Ethical Social Network
• Software Packages on SDF by Category
• Online privacy and SDF
• SDF Vintage Systems – Remote Vintage Systems information and tutorials
  • The MENU system – connect[s] you across a telnet bridge to the host (retrocomputing)

misc: A wiki namespace for other things –have some non-tutorial, not-about SDF things to wikify? Here's a place for it.

Some other things:

• Noise, Electronics and Code A tutorial to get you started creating electronic and experimental music on your computer.

You can mess around on the wiki in the playground namespace, which is separate from and won't affect the main wiki. So if you want to practice before making changes to the wiki, go there and mess with it however you want (remember the wiki has version tracking, so even egregious changes can be undone rather quickly!)

One thing in the playground is an idea for a different front page: Playground Proposed Front Page: Welcome to SDF User Contributed Tutorials, check it out and let folks know if you like it on the TUTORIALS board in bboard