Online UNIX Shell for Practice

Are you a student and want to practice your UNIX Programs, but don't have UNIX loaded in your computer, and you don't want to install on it because it is brand new computer and you don't want to risk it.

For all you guys there is a chance to execute UNIX Programs in your Windows Environment.

Let me start with basics

Telnet

What is a Telnet ?
It is the protocol we can use to remotely login into a computer and execute commands in the system and display the output in at the telnet terminal.

The system we are using will be the Terminal and the system we are logging into will be the Host Computer.

So if we have a Host Computer with UNIX Operating System installed, then we can login into it and execute our UNIX Programs.........

Got the point.....

The Real twist comes into the scenario now, what Will be the host computer....

Generally in our labs, there will be a Server with installed UNIX, all will be dumb terminals, they are used to login into server and execute our computers.

But there are other free Non-Profit Organizations that offer free shell accounts.

So we can login into these servers, create a shell account and execute our programs.

To login into such servers we shall need some piece of information, i.e ip-address of the host, LOGIN ID, passwd

Now I am going to give and example about Abornet that offers Free Unix Shell Accounts. For Details check : http://www.arbornet.org/

First of all you need a Telnet client to login into the system. Windows has an inbuilt Telnet Client which truly sucks guys. Better go for Putty.
You can get here : putty-0.60-installer.exe

Open the Putty Client. At the Host Adress Enter m-net.arbornet.org and select telnet protocol option below the Host Address.

Now we have to create a shell account. Enter newuser when it prompts for login.

You will be passed through a series of wizards and ultimately your account will be created.

Some Tips in Creating Account :
At the Shell Type select Bash, it is more commonly used.
At the Editor Option you can select vi or better pine, pine is simple to use.....


Tha Da........
Your account is created, Congrats just login and start coding......

You can login using same username and password multiple times and execute memory sharing programs.

Note: The Cap each user is 5 MB, so try not crossing the list.

You can checkout Some Other Shell Providers here
http://www.delicious.com/jrahulroy/Shell

You comments and suggestions are requested........