Re: Shell providers?

On 2024-03-08, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 09:46:32 -0000 (UTC), Kaz Kylheku
<433-929-6894@kylheku.com> wrote in <20240308013928.226@kylheku.com>:
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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.

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That turns out not to be the case.
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Some shell users don't want to be system administrators.

Yes, luckily, in those 30 years, we also got to the point where anyone
can install the stuff with their eyes closed, or even buy a system with
it preinstalled.
There is next to nothing to administer on a machine that just runs
client applications like tin or irssi.

"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.

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 ...with all the system administration that entails.

Next to zero. "sudo apt install mutt" is strawman system
administration.
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