Dmoz, the "open" directory competitor to the Yahoo directory?
Boy, does that take me back. It makes me want to fire up Red Hat 6, WindowMaker, X11Amp, Netscape Communicator and re-discover the internet old school; check out some bands on audiogalaxy.com, limp through some Macromedia-enhanced sites, read slashdot.org and cmdrtaco.net, see if JWZ has posted any more rants to his website, try out the latest nvidia X11 drivers. Those were the days, I say. Back when so many of us were still writing C++ as if it had a future.
Seems most of these are either Linux, BSD or SunOS. I'm much more interested on getting shells on obscure systems like AIX, HP-UX or SunOS SPARC to port software to them. But those are really hard to come by.
That's awesome, thanks! Looks like shell access is a $10 one time fee per system though (but still reading their policies). So the initial cost would be a function of how many systems you want to port to.
Just out of curiosity, what would you use a shell account like that for? Do you do active development on it, or is it just a place to keep a screen session with an irc client running?
I've had an account on SDF for years, even paid for the lifetime membership, I don't use it too much but it is useful from time to time and it works great.
So happy to see Nyx Net still up and running - it's where I first learned the *nix shell back in '92 or '93 on their Nox server - ahh memories.
Dmoz, the "open" directory competitor to the Yahoo directory?
Boy, does that take me back. It makes me want to fire up Red Hat 6, WindowMaker, X11Amp, Netscape Communicator and re-discover the internet old school; check out some bands on audiogalaxy.com, limp through some Macromedia-enhanced sites, read slashdot.org and cmdrtaco.net, see if JWZ has posted any more rants to his website, try out the latest nvidia X11 drivers. Those were the days, I say. Back when so many of us were still writing C++ as if it had a future.
Kudos to you, dmoz. Kudos.
Seems most of these are either Linux, BSD or SunOS. I'm much more interested on getting shells on obscure systems like AIX, HP-UX or SunOS SPARC to port software to them. But those are really hard to come by.
Try http://polarhome.com
They offer (beside usual linux/bsd flavors) QNX, IRIX, AIX and HP-UX shell accounts.
That's awesome, thanks! Looks like shell access is a $10 one time fee per system though (but still reading their policies). So the initial cost would be a function of how many systems you want to port to.
Still looks like a great service though.
I <3 free, but many of these are hosted on DSL accounts in people's spare boxes on their home network.
If you want a reliable shell for personal use check out http://lowendbox.com - there is a whole market for *nix VPS's for as little as $10-$20/year.
This is what I did. Now I have root access, and much less restrictions in general. It's 3 bucks a month for the one I got.
Just out of curiosity, what would you use a shell account like that for? Do you do active development on it, or is it just a place to keep a screen session with an irc client running?
I've had an account on SDF for years, even paid for the lifetime membership, I don't use it too much but it is useful from time to time and it works great.
Another longtime SDF user, sadly I haven't logged in in a while. It was my first contact with the BSDs and the korn shell.
One that's not included, and that I can heartily recommend if you're curious about OpenBSD: http://devio.us/