[ubuntu-uk] OT: Shell accounts

[Simon Greenwood]

On 25 July 2012 09:37, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:

> On 25 July 2012 09:33, Alan Pope <alan.pope at canonical.com> wrote:
> >> I was wondering if anybody on the list can recommend any hosted shell
> >> accounts?
> >
> >
> > I have used sdf in the past.
>
> Don't quite understand why somebody would want a hosted shell account,
> especially a Linux user.
>
> Surely shell comes "for free" as part of the OS?
>
> Or am I missing something?
>
>
They're quite useful sometimes, possibly less so now than in pre-broadband
days but they still have their uses for testing or ad hoc scripting. You're
harking back to early Un*x days when all accounts were essentially shared
shell accounts.

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