On 25 July 2012 09:37, Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net> wrote: > On 25 July 2012 09:33, Alan Pope <alan.p...@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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