Welcome to tilde.institute! This is an OpenBSD machine whose purpose is to provide a space in the tildeverse for experimentation with and education of the OpenBSD
operating system. A variety of editors, shells, and compilers are installed to allow for development in a native OpenBSD
environment. OpenBSD's httpd(8)
is configured with slowcgi(8)
as the fastcgi provider and sqlite3
is available. This allows users to experiment with web development using compiled CGI
in C
(or any statically-linked binary), aka the BCHS Stack. In addition to php7.3
, this provides an environment where the development of complex, responsive web apps is possible.
User sites are accessible via https://<user>.tilde.institute
A list of user gopher sites are available at gopher://tilde.institute
Mailing list now available for tilde.institute! Web archive and subscribing information available here. The mailing list will be the primary means of communication between tilde.institute and users regarding announcements and critical issues.
The list of compilers available are as follows:
clang 7.0.1
clisp 2.49
elixir 1.8.1
erlang 21
gcc 8.3.0
ghc 8.2.2
go 1.13
guile 1.8.8
jdk 11.0.2.9.3 (environment setup required)
nasm 2.14.02
nim 0.16.0
racket 7.2
rust 1.33.0
scala 2.12.3
yasm 1.3.0
We also provide non-HTTP access to various interpreted languages:
python (2.7 & 3.6)
ruby 2.5 (and 2.6)
perl 5.28.1
lua 5.3.5
Your interactive shell can be changed with the chsh
command. The shells available:
/bin/ksh (default)
/bin/sh
/bin/csh
/usr/local/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/dash
/usr/local/bin/zsh
/usr/local/bin/fish
/usr/local/bin/tcsh
/usr/local/bin/elvish
The IRC clients available by default are:
weechat
irssi
ircII
Feel free to contact the admins via admins@tilde.institute or on IRC in #institute
if you need another package installed, or if you would like your homepage's index changed from index.html
to something else (index.cgi
, index.php
, etc). We can also provide access to MariaDB
by request.
News & Updates
2019 July 30The server migration happened over the weekend, and there were very few issues resulting from the migration. Success!
2019 July 04We'll be moving to a much larger and more powerful server soon! Currently building it. We're hoping to have everything ready for next week.
2019 June 06Wow, we've hit 150 users! Also, we'll be upgrading to OpenBSD 6.5 on Monday evening around 10:00 PM US Eastern Time, or 2:00 AM UTC (Tuesday).
2019 March 14Welcome to the team, Kneezle!