Re: Shell providers?

On 2024-03-08, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> writes:

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

[...]

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.

[...]
>
Or you can run a Windows machine with an ssh client such as PuTTY or
TeraTerm, or an Android or ChromeOS device with an ssh client, or a Mac
if that's your thing.

We are muddying the argument now. The argument is that if you have
a machine which can run an SSH client, chance are that instead of that,
you can just run a freeware distro where you have mutt, pine, irssi, tf,
and whatnot.
(I disagree that this constitutes "system administration".)
Yes; if you have Windows you can connect to a "managed shell account";
that is neither here nor there.
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