[Cialug] Free Linux Account Somewhere?

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Wed Nov 16 15:39:05 CST 2011


On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Haven't mailed in a while... but now my hobby project has gotten a bit big
> so.....
>
> I know this is a crazy request, but is there anywhere I could secure a
> free account on a Linux machine accessible over the Internet?  You see, I
> may be out of work, poor and streeting it for a while, but it didn't really
> stop me from doing software development since I could plug my flash drive
> into any computer anywhere and I could code away.
>
> You see, CLISP (a common Lisp interpreter) has a Windows port so I could
> do development on Windows machines, wherever I happened to be.  The natural
> language processor (my project) now requires other programs (written in
> java) with which to work in concert, a capability not supported by Windows
> very well (and most places block command prompts anyway).
>
> So, for this reason, I figured I'd check with all you in-the-know people
> to see if there were an idle Linux box sitting on the Internet somewhere
> looking for a purpose.
>
>

If you are a new customer, you can sign up for an EC2 account and get a
micro server for free for the first year. http://aws.amazon.com/free/

You can use that to run one server 24/7 or 2 servers 12/7 or whatever.

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Matthew Nuzum
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