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 SDF.org 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. Copies of the SDF traditional tutorial import data ²⁾ was kindly provided by contributing members of SDF.

• SDF Basics (most basic: finding help!)
• Customize Your SDF Shell Experience
• Email - description of Email at SDF and tutorials
• Internet Web sites you can make 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
• Internet Chat Relay (IRC) on SDF
• SDF VoIP Telephony Service - VoIP
• SDF Dialup and DSL INTERNET Service
• SDF Virtual Private Servers (VPS) (MetaARPA)
• ANONRADIO at SDF - SDF Radio!
• Retro-Computing - including Twenex and other retrocomputing environments
• Alternate Computing Environments - Including Plan 9 from Bell Labs
• Source Control and Software Development Resources
• Advanced Topics

• Pico Cheat Sheet – pico is the default editor for bboard
• Emacs Cheatsheet – emacs is an uber-editor 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
• Software Packages on SDF by Category
• The SDF Travelling AT&T 605 UNIX Terminal - former terminal used on the AT&T 3B2/500

• How to Donate and why - A page to explain how and why your friends and family (or you) should help fund SDF.
• Spreading the word about SDF
• Online privacy
• SDF for blind users

You can mess around on this wiki in the playground namespace, which is separate from and won't affect the main wiki.