This very same text is available as /etc/motd.full.
[2009-10-27] Older entries lost in time.
[2009-10-27] Short down due to a problem at our hosting facility. Sorry.
[2009-11-27] System maintenance, expect some downtime.
[2009-11-29] irssi upgraded to 0.8.14 and WeeChat to 0.3.0.
[2009-12-12] Long downtime today (more than one hour). The reason is an upgrade
of the system to a more powerful configuration. You'll love it.
[2010-01-06] Mutt upgraded to 1.5.20. Alpine 2.00 will come soon.
[2010-02-10] Alpine upgraded to version 2.00.
[2010-02-14] You may now request a mailing list for general discussion
at ninthfloor.org. More info here: http://ninthfloor.org/lists
[2010-04-26] irssi upgraded to 0.8.15 and WeeChat to 0.3.1.
[2010-05-09] WeeChat upgraded to version 0.3.2.
[2010-09-14] Maximum simultaneous logins increased from 4 to 6!
(and you can always multiplex your shell with screen or tmux.)
[2010-10-02] RoundCube (the webmail interface) has been updated to 0.4.1.
[2010-10-02] User quota increased to 640MiB!
[2010-12-22] OpenSSL is now RFC 5746 compliant.
[2011-01-12] RAM upgrade; system reboot after more than 212 days.
[2011-01-31] You may now support ninthfloor by donating via Flattr:
http://flattr.com/thing/125933/ninthfloor-org-unix-for-the-masses
At the moment the expenses are still NOT covered by the donations.
[2011-02-09] System upgraded to Debian 6.0 Squeeze with no major inconveniences
and no downtime at all. Please report any inconvenience and have
fun with the new shiny installation!
[2011-02-14] You can now access your shell via your web browser, just point it
to https://ssh.ninthfloor.org/ and and you'll get a familiar login
prompt (that's actually /bin/login!). If you still have to do it,
please import the CAcert root certificates, as explained here:
http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3
[2011-03-18] Major kernel upgrade: 2.6.27.10+grsec -> 2.6.32.32+grsec.
[2011-06-01] Roundcube webmail updated to 0.5.3.
[2011-06-08] Ninthfloor.org participates to the World IPv6 Day!
[2011-06-16] Kernel upgrade; added support for ecryptfs.
[2011-06-17] Mutt 1.5.21, WeeChat 0.3.5
[2011-06-23] New software: ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick.
[2011-09-25] Uptime statistics are available via the `uprecords' command
and online: http://ninthfloor.org/uptime
[2011-09-25] /home was almost full, a reboot was needed in order to grow the
partition. We need more disk space anyway.
[2011-09-28] Good news! Your web pages (the stuff in your ~/public_html) are
now accessible at a shorter address (the old one still works):
http://.ninth.su/
[2011-10-11] We now have some nice looking system statistics, check
http://ninthfloor.org/stats and have fun :)
[2011-11-02] New software: Bazaar, GNU TLS Tools, BBDB
[2011-11-11] Even fancier stats: http://ninthfloor.org/stats
[2011-12-14] New software: Maxima, a Computer Algebra System
[2011-12-21] Added RAM and storage; new kernel; native IPv6 connectivity