Free Unix/Linux shell providers at dmoz: the open directory project

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.

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.

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.

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.

One that's not included, and that I can heartily recommend if you're curious about OpenBSD: http://devio.us/