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It's a shame polar-home closed. [0] Polarhome was a free project where you could obtain a shell on many different operating systems. Nothing fancy hosted on so
by doublerabbit 3y ago
It's a shame polar-home closed. [0]
Polarhome was a free project where you could obtain a shell on many different operating systems. Nothing fancy hosted on some guys Swedish internet within his basement of servers. Discovered it when I was 13 and that brought me in to the world of Unix, Linux and Minix. Hosted my first ever blog, introduced me to shell's and compiling Apache to your own shell, I weep on how you can now click a button and have some $webinstance. I miss those times.
While reminiscing, credits to a guy called Stingray who I met on try2hack.nl in the Netherlands who gave me my first ever box hosted on his home net. I feel privileged for the freedom of internet I had back then compared to now. Folks just don't know.
Talk about triggered. Oh look, FreeBSD finished compiling.
>>> World build completed on Sat Nov 18 11:44:33 GMT 2023
>>> World built in 973 seconds, ncpu: 80, make -j79
[0] http://polarhome.com/ http://polarhome.com/
- BSDobelix 3y agoYou know i was thinking since years doing something like sdf.org but with jails. Where every user has a jail for themselves, but also a instance where every user can login into the same system ala sdf.
- jetbalsa 3y agoThere are some old unix shell providers still floating around. I'm still a active user of sdf.org
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoI recall back in the earliest 90s anybody could get a free telnet accessible shell account on one of the GNU ai.mit.edu servers. I used one like that for a time. Really was a different Internet back then.