Heres a list of some more kewl shell providers...
Hope u find it useful..
By the way.. i would like to mention... www.hackerslab.org is a good site for begginers to learn something...


Ok. Here goes the shell provider list
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CSA Test Drive

Hardware: Compaq Alpha Servers, Compaq ProLiant Servers, and Compaq DeskPro Systems
Operating System: Debian Linux, FreeBSD, Kondara Linux, Linux Mandrake, Linux64, OpenVMS, Redhat Linux, SuSE Linux, Tru64 Unix, TurboLinux, Windows 2000
Quota: Depends
Connection: Fast
IRC Access: No
Background Proccesses Allowed: Unknown
Login Method: SSH and Telnet
Other:
The Test Drive Program is a free service of Compaq providing developers with access to new Compaq hardware running various Compaq and third party operating systems and applications. To get a free account, register and you will be able to use the shell account to log into the wide variety of systems on the Test Drive network. They have a firewall set up only allow incoming connections on specific ports. Attempts to connect to outside hosts will not work because of this.


M-net

Hardware: Unknown
Operating System: FreeBSD
Quota: 1 Mbyte
Connection: Unknown
IRC Access: Yes
Background Proccesses Allowed: No
Login Method: SSH and Telnet
Other:
Telnet to m-net.arbornet.org and login as newuser. M-net offers over 125 different conference areas, real-time chat rooms, common UNIX utilities such as compilers, E-Mail, a homepage, and WWW access via lynx all for free. Users who want further access to Internet services such as telnet, ftp, and IRC are charged a modest fee, and also get the benefit of becoming an m-net patron or member.


PAUS Public Access Unix System

Hardware: Unknown
Operating System: Linux
Quota: 10 Mbyte /home, 5 Mbyte mail
Connection: DSL, 3+Mbps down / 1+Mbps up
IRC Access: No
Background Proccesses Allowed: No
Login Method: SSH and Telnet
Other:
Telnet to theunixplace.com and login as new. You can do anything, but cannot use Internet. Donate or subscribe for Internet access.


Polarfox@home

Hardware: Pentium Celeron 733MHz with 512MB of RAM and 8GB of hard disk space
Operating System: RedHat Linux and OpenVMS
Quota: 10 Mbyte
Connection: Unknown
IRC Access: Yes
Background Proccesses Allowed: Yes
Login Method: SSH and Telnet
Other:
FTP access, webspace, POP3/IMAP e-mail, WAP mail reader, MySQL access, Perl, PHP, etc.


Suburbia

Hardware: Unknown
Operating System: Debian Linux
Quota: Unknown
Connection: Unkown
IRC Access: Yes
Background Proccesses Allowed: Yes
Login Method: SSH and Telnet
Other:
Due to the enormous number of requests we've had for shell accounts we have to be selective on our members. Please email helpdesk@suburbia.com.au and state why you'd like to use the services available on this system - it has to be a good reason (HINT: say your a programamer in need of a shell)!


The Forest

Hardware: Intel Pentium 166 MHz with 80MB RAM and 7 GB hard disk space
Operating System: Slackware Linux
Quota: 10 MB for /home, 5 MB for mail. More quota can be requested if needed for a good reason.
Connection: ADSL (768kbps down/128kbps up).
IRC Access: Yes
Background Proccesses Allowed: Yes
Login Method: SSH and Telnet
Other:
A directory in the anonymous FTP area. POP3, Webmail access. Access to Pine, elm, Lynx, BX, IRCII, Micq, crontab, compilers, etc.


the1.no-ip.com

Hardware: Intel Pentium
Operating System: Debian Linux
Quota: depends
Connection: DSL
IRC Access: Yes
Background Proccesses Allowed: Yes
Login Method: SSH
Other:
Hosted at the1.no-ip.com. E-mail the1@cia.zemos.net to get an account. Users have access to a browser (links), scanners (nmap and whisker), netcat, compilers (gcc/g++, perl, brain****), BitchX, and more