Perhaps in your area, shell accounts are common-place.Hello Glenn, everyone:
Such is not the case here.
CisNet does not offer this service.
Nor does any other ISP in this area.
(that I have been able to find)
As was mentioned earlier, if you're online already, shell accounts are just a few key strokes away!
Here are a few places that offer free shell accounts. Of course, this should go w/o saying, read all the requirements/limitation/fine print/etc before deciding which one to use! ;)
http://www.freeshell.org/ (may be part of the group L.D. was referring to ;))
http://www.publiclinux.net/shells/free.html (from their site:
"Public Linux provides a very unique FREE Shell Account that you will not find anywhere else. The FREE Shell that we provide is more like a mind altering experience of psychedelic groove, expanding your mind over the event horizon of the sub-conscious supernova waiting to explode within your soul, sending you into a child like state of innocent bliss.
This is all down to the fact that our FREE Shell is in fact a Bespoke Vertical Application written in-house by ourselves (Martin Sanders, Scott Catalano and Kristen Catalano) called PLIHMS v7.0 (Public Linux In House Menu System - Version 7.0). Allowing you to turn on, tune in and drop out of your own personal reality for a moment of freaked out funk.")
http://www.nyx.net/
http://www.atshell.com/index.php (appears new signups are temporarily disabled)
http://www.spunge.org/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=14&page_id=3#shell
http://www.cyberspace.org/shell.html
http://www.arbornet.org/projects.html
Or perhaps you'd like to peruse through these pages of links to providers of free shells (beware, there are some dead links among the living):
http://www.ductape.net/~mitja/freeunix.shtml http://www.freebelt.com/freeshells.html http://www.leftfoot.com/free-shell.html
Enjoy!
may this reach you smiling! david
