Does anyone know of a Unix server(s) on the net for practicing commands?

[Arkitech]

I'm trying to learn some of the basic Unix commands and I was wondering if there any servers on the net setup for that kind of thing. Anyone know of a few?

 

[nweaver]

I would just get vmware beta for free, and put BSD on a VM. I think pcbsd even provides a working VM image.

 

[notfred]

go here and download the "Live CD". Burn the disk, stick it in your CD drive, and then boot off the CD. YOu have a complete linux installation on a CD and you can play with it all you want, and you don't have to change anything on your hard drive.

 

[Arkitech]

thanks for the suggestions guys, I'm goinig to try out both ideas.

 

[n0cmonkey]

http://www.qemu.org

 

[jalaram]

There's always Cygwin.

 

[n0cmonkey]

http://www.freeshell.org/
http://www.metawire.org/ (currently switching providers 🙁)

 

[kamper]

http://rm-my-mac.wideopenbsd.org/ 😛

Edit: stupid auto-linker can't handle dashes or something 😕

 

[HardcoreRobot]

cygwin, so when you see how powerful some of the commands are, it will already be available for you to use on your windows machine 🙂

or, sign up for one of the free hosting offers, get some webspace and ssh in. you can build a website and learn some linux stuff at the same time. the utility of this may be diminished depending on what the host gives you permission to do...