Hi, I posted this in the forums a couple weeks ago, just thought that I would copy it here in case anyone was still interested. Hi, I've a couple of Linode's with spare resources so I thought that I would offer some free shell accounts. There are three servers in total each running Arch Linux hosted in a Newark, New Jersey datacenter. The following packages are installed: abs 2.3.4.1-1, alpine 2.00-9, anyterm 1.1.29-1, apache 2.2.15-2, aria2 1.9.2-1, aspell 0.60.6-4, bash-completion 1.1-3, bc 1.06-7, bitlbee 1.2.6a-1, boost 1.41.0-1, cabal-install 0.8.0-2, cairo 1.8.10-1, ccache 2.4-5, centerim 4.22.9-3, certificates 2010-1, cherrypy 3.1.2-1, clisp 2.48-1, cpulimit 1.1-1, cuneiform 0.9.0-1, curl 7.20.1-1, darcs 2.4.1-1, dictionaries 2010-1, distcc 3.1-3, documentation 2010-1, dovecot 1.2.11-2, ecl 10.4.1-1, elinks 0.11.7-3, emacs-full 23.1-5, erlang R13B04-3, fish 1.23.1-2, fontforge 20090923-2, fortune-mod 1.99.1-4, freeimage 3.13.1-1, freetalk 3.2-4, gdb 7.1-2, ghc 6.12.1-4, ghostscript 8.71-3, git 1.7.1-1, gnupg 1.4.10-2, gnupg2 2.0.15-1, gnuplot 4.2.6-1, graphicsmagick 1.3.12-1, gtk2 2.20.0-2, guile 1.8.7-2, htop 0.8.3-1, icecast 2.3.2-3, imagemagick 6.6.1.4-1, intltool 0.41.1-1, ipsec-tools 0.7.3-2, iptables 1.4.7-1, irssi 0.8.15-1, libcups 1.4.3-2, lilypond 2.12.3-2, links 2.2-4, lua 5.1.4-4, lynx 2.8.7-2, maxima 5.20.1-3, mcabber 0.10.0-2, memcached 1.4.5-1, mercurial 1.5.1-1, monit 5.0.3-2, mysql 5.1.46-2, naim 0.11.8.3.2-1, nano 2.2.4-1, ne 2.0.3-1, nethack 3.4.3-4, nfs-utils 1.2.2-2, ngspice 20-1, nss_ldap 264-2, ntp 4.2.6-3, ocaml 3.11.2-1, octave 3.2.3-3, openldap 2.4.21-2, openssh 5.4p1-4, openvpn 2.1.1-2, pacman 3.3.3-5, pam_ldap 184-3, pango 1.28.0-1, parrot 2.3.0-1, perl 5.10.1-5, php-full 5.3.2-6, postfix 2.7.0-2, postgis 1.5.1-1, postgresql 8.4.3-2, python 2.6.5-3, python-jinja 2.4.1-1, python3 3.1.2-3, quota-tools 3.17-1, r 2.10.1-1, rpcbind 0.2.0-1, rsync 3.0.7-1, rsyslog 5.4.0-1, rtorrent 0.8.6-2, ruby 1.9.1_p378-2, rxvt-unicode 9.07-1, sbcl 1.0.37-1, screen 4.0.3-8, slrn 0.9.9p1-6, sphinx 0.9.9-1, spidermonkey 1.7.0-3, subversion 1.6.9-5, system 2010-1, tcl 8.5.8-1, tcsh 6.17.00-1, tesseract 2.04-3, texlive 2009-1, tin 1.8.3-7, tk 8.5.8-2, tmux 1.2-2, toolchain 2010-1, tree 1.5.3-1, ttf-dejavu 2.30-2, unzip 6.0-5, valgrind 3.5.0-3, vifm 0.5-2, vim-full 7.2.411-1, vixie-cron 4.1-11, vsftpd 2.2.2-3, w3m 0.5.2-5, weechat 0.3.2-1, xinetd 2.3.14-5, xorg-xauth 1.0.4-1, zsh 4.3.10-3 I've omitted most dependencies to shorten that list. If a package is requested I'll be happy to install it as long as it is reasonable and secure. You'll be free to run web applications in Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, etc. You will automatically have a PostgreSQL account with the ability to create databases and if requested you will also be given your own LDAP tree. In addition you'll also have an email account that can be forwarded or accessed via IMAP or POP3. Feel free to compile software. There's also a whole slew of mathematical, statistical, and scientific software installed so feel free to run mathematical simulations etc. Each server has a 3GB /tmp partition of which most likely 2.8GB will be accessible to users who need the space temporarily (for compilation, etc.). I'm thinking right now that I'd like to allocate 256MB to each users to start off with and see how things work out from there. Uptime so far hasn't been fantastic but the servers have been undergoing a lot of changes lately so once everything is set I'm anticipating pretty good uptime. Basically all I'm asking for in return is that if you see a security hole or something stupid to let me know. I don't expect anyone to look for anything at all but if something happens to catch your attention please forward your concerns to me. Thanks. I am offering 24MB, 96MB, and 256MB accounts. Please make a reasonable estimate as to how much disk space you will use. You will be able to "upgrade" or "downgrade" later but please make a reasonable estimate now because changing that option later is a lot of work for me. Remember that /tmp has 2.8GB and is the recommended place to do compiling and such. If you'd like an account please reply on the list or email me at kaiting.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. I need your first and last name as well as your email address. I also need to know whether or not you would like LDAP access. When your account is created you'll receive an email with your temporary password and the instructions for SSH'ing into your server. Please read the information in that email carefully. Also note that the servers have a first.last name username scheme which I really like so unfortunately I can't accommodate custom usernames. If you have a serious problem with this please email me and we can discuss a solution. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
