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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Shell providers?
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:21:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 09:46:32 -0000 (UTC), Kaz Kylheku
<433-929-6894@kylheku.com> wrote in <20240308013928.226@kylheku.com>:

> On 2024-03-08, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
>> We like to give customers a soft landing when turning down services. 
>> I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for good shell providers,
>> places like Panix.
> 
> That concept mostly went away 30 years ago with free Unix-like operating
> systems that run on low-spec consumer hardware.

That turns out not to be the case.

Some shell users don't want to be system administrators.

> 
>> "bare-bones" for the users I'm thinking of.  Some of them might be able
>> to transition to being a system administrator, but a lot just want to
>> run tin, pine, mutt, irssi, tf, and so forth.
> 
> To access some remote shell account you need a machine that is internet
> connected and can run SSH. That machine can just run a freeware OS with
> all the above packages.

 ...with all the system administration that entails.

I suppose the formal name for my request is recommendations for "managed
shell services".

Thanks to those who responded, sdf.org and the tildeverse are great
suggestions.

-- 
-v