This is my landing page for information and links about pubnixes.
Matters are complicated by the significant overlap between pubnixes, gopher and other areas of interest.
I take a "broad" definition of pubnix, to include any big remotely accessible UNIX/Linux machine which permits shell access for users beyond a single household, employer or family. A "narrow" definition of pubnix would restrict that by imposing some of the following conditions:
In the late 1990s, some friends and I were involved in founding some pubnixes, in a contested context. It meant we needed to put some thought into the actual theory of what pubnixes are and why they're good. The broad/narrow typology above cuts across that. I'll write more on it one day.
cmccabe on the history and future of pubnixes
Micro-pubnixes, local flavour and two-tier structure
On SDF, and the future of public access unix
The Circumlunar Universe (according to the Zaibatsu)
The Circumlunar Universe (according to the Soviet)
The Mare Crisium Soviet Socialist Regency
In the future, circa 2025, I intend to found a new pubnix focused on smolnet / Heterodox Technology.
Hacker News thread re SDF / pubnixes (1)
Hacker News thread re SDF / pubnixes (2)
What were the major public access unix systems available in the 1990s
https://web.archive.org/web/20230930155115/https://crystallabs.io/member/
Five years a sundog - Happy birthday, circumlunar space!
Happy Birfday, Zaibatsu-kun! Or, Wages of the Smolnet
TBD
I tend to call them "Public Access UNIX" systems, or PAX. This is definitely what some people called them in the 1990s. The "pubnix" term was new to me when I came across it a few years ago, circa 2020.