Blinkenshell - Free UNIX Shell Accounts!

Hi there, and welcome to Blinkenshell.org! This is a free UNIX shell provider. Here you can get your own personal [:Shell Account:shell account] on a Linux Server for free! The only requirements is that you actively participate in our community and follow the rules and guidelines.

Blinkenshell is intended to be a community with helpful and friendly users who are curious to learn more about interesting stuff (often related to computers.) You can read more about Blinkenshell here: [:Info/About: About Blinkenshell].

This is a great place to be if you are looking for somewhere to learn more about ["UNIX"], networking, programming or meet other people with similar interests as yours. For some common usage scenarios of a shell account, take a look here: ["UsageScenarios"].

Blinkenshell is a fairly mature shell provider, the service has been online for over a year now, we've passed 100 users accounts some time ago and still growing fast. We're still accepting new members of course, if you're interested in signing up for an account take a look at the [:Info/Signup:Signup Info].

Keep in mind that the server is located in my basement and is not intended for any commercial use. It doesn't cost anything to use and does not provide any guaranteed uptime, availability, quality of service or any warranty. This is a hobby project!

If you have any questions or just want to talk to us, come on in and join the [:Info/IRC:chat]! (IRC: #blinkenshell @ irc.allshells.net)

Current events

• ["Planet Blinkenshell"] - an aggregation of blogs of Blinkenshell's members. Here you can read about news/changes on Blinkenshell (my blog) and hopefully posts from other members in the future!
• Everything up and running, we are accepting new registrations.

Overview

Services

• Secure remote login and file transfers via ["SSH"] and ["SFTP"].
• 50 MB Quota (25 MB for homedir and 25 MB for website)

• IRC access via irssi, weechat, BitchX or ircII (gnu screen allowed -> detachable). Connectable to all major IRCnets (via IPv4). No Bots or bouncers allowed!

• IM: CenterICQ (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN), tmsnc (MSN), ekg (gadugadu), pidgin (AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo)
• Development environment: compilers (C, C++), interpreters (Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby), editors (Emacs, nano, VIm), utilities (diff, Subversion, CVS, Bazaar, GIT)

• ["Info/Webhosting"] http://<username>.blinkenshell.org (["PHP"], ["CGI"], SSI, custom .htaccess)

• SQL Databases via SQLite or ["MySQL"] (MySQL not enabled by default, ask for setup)

• E-Mail access via mutt or pine, get your own email address (or forward) at blinkenshell: username@blinkenshell.org Webmail, SMTP and IMAPs access (not enabled by default, ask for setup)

• ["Games"]: [:MUD:MUDs] and other text-based games

• Browse the web via text-based browsers such as links2 and elinks. Textbased FTP clients.
• Network diagnostics: ping, tracepath, host (DNS lookup)

Why would you need all this? Take a look at some common ["UsageScenarios"].

Server info

• CPU: 1.83 GHz AMD
• RAM: 1024 MB DDR
• Connection: 8 Mbit/s downstream, 1 Mbit/s upstream (ADSL, Static IP, Reverse DNS)
• UPS: 700VA

• OS: [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo Linux]

• Location: Linkoping, Sweden [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Linköping&sll=58.631217,15.556641&sspn=21.567188,55.107422&ie=UTF8&z=5&ll=58.401712,15.644531&spn=21.705367,55.107422&om=1 Google maps]

• ["OperationalStatus"], [http://blinkenshell.org/uptime.txt Top Uptimes]

Contact

Contact info for JohanMarcusson, Blinkenshell admin and founder:

• [:Info/IRC:IRC]: #blinkenshell @ irc.allshells.net ( Webchat access available at: http://blinkenshell.org/cgiirc/ )

• Email: [:JohanMarcusson:independence] at blinkenlights.se

More

• ["Info"] - Links to pages with more information about Blinkenshell.
• ["FAQ"] - Frequently asked questions and answers.
• ["Links"] - Some external links.

• TitleIndex - Index of all the pages on this site.

• Information in other languages: [:accueil:French] (feel free to do more translations!)

This website is based on MoinMoin wiki engine. You can edit the contents of the pages by creating a wiki user (a wiki user is not the same thing as a system account, you can not SSH to the server with this account.)