The best shell account available to any user is set up by that user himself. Get it? If you want a good, fully functional shell, I would recommend that you set up a machine with that ability. It's not all that hard to do these days. All you need is 486 or better w/ 32mb ram, maybe a 1GB hdd. Networking support through ethernet or dial up would be available to you. In all reality you could potentially find a decent paid account, but again, the best will be the one that is setup specifically for you and that is best done through your own machine.

otherwise, a quick google search should get you more than enough information on various shell providers and what they offer.

Hope this helps.


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should you go the route of setting up yer own box, linux systems may be a good place for you to start. get linux free. http://linuxiso.org/
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