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Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security[color]
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

[color=darkblue]Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.

Available Shell Servers

We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.

All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.

Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).

Alma.Eskimo.Com
This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid.
Anduinos.Eskimo.Com
Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others.
Debian.Eskimo.Com
This server is running on Debian Bullseye. It has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded.
Fedora.Eskimo.Com
This server runs Fedora Rawhide. It can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed.
Kali.Eskimo.Com
Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites.
Manjaro.Eskimo.Com
Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed.
Mint.Eskimo.Com
This is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu.
MxLinux.Eskimo.Com
MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS.
PopOS.Eskimo.Com
PopOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
Rocky8.Eskimo.Com
Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.

Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com
This is the latest stable Ubuntu release. It can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools.
Zorin.Eskimo.Com
Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.

Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.

Bombardeios dos EUA ao Irã sacodem mercados globais e elevam temores sobre inflação e petróleo - O Cafezinho
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Trump's Bomb Backfirers.
Medvedev Reacts: 'Number Of Countries' Now Ready To Supply Iran With 'Their Own Nuclear Warheads'

On Sunday morning Russia's former president and current deputy chairman of the country's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev issued his reaction to the major US overnight strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, giving what's essentially the view of where things stand from the Kremlin.

Medvedev in a ten-point list of reactions characterized the attacks as ultimately ineffective, and that it will blow back on America and Israel in a way opposite than intended, especially as Tehran will now only push harder for a nuke, and allied countries might now simply be willing to supply them to the Iranians, he described.

Now do London, saying something like this: "I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the indigenous Anglo-Saxon and Celtic peoples..."

"King Charles opens Canadian parliament with ‘land acknowledgment’ "
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Trump Let Himself Be Led By Israel Into Bombing Iran korybko.substack.com/p/trump-l…
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Top Ten dumbest things we're being asked to believe about Iran:

1. That the Iranians want to be bombed
2. That the guy bombing Iran wants peace
3. That regime change interventionism is a swell idea this time
4. That anyone who doesn't want war with Iran hates Jews
5. That this time the government and the media are telling us the truth about an American war
6. That this time the neocons are smart and correct
7. That bombing Iran makes it LESS likely to try to obtain nukes

Former Iranian Ambassador Repeats Call for Diplomacy, Issues Stern Warnings on CNN eir.news/2025/06/news/former-i…
in reply to rumschlumpel

That's a good point about alternative rock. I changed the title from usually to sometimes, maybe usually was too much.

I've never thought about the word alternative being synonymous with progressive, I tend of think of as meaning against the grain or against the mainstream but in practice sometimes it just means bullshit like in the title. For example RT calls themselves "alternative media" but they're really just propaganda slop.

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I think there has been a certain amount of cultural change in the rightwing - used to be they just considered themselves the status quo upholders, the ones who were subversive were hippies, educated-but-not-rich city-dwellers, artists etc.. Now that more progressive forces became somewhat mainstream and the rightwing radicalized, major parts of the rightwing have adopted a more subversive identity and messaging.
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The Crisis Can’t Be Solved With More War — ELN


The crisis facing imperialist domination by the United States and its allies will not be resolved by opening new theaters of war or by attempting to impose a heightened neocolonial order on the peoples of the world. The decline of US power is undeniable, as emerging powers leave it behind in fields such as production, trade, technology, and the military; therefore, the tariff war launched by Trump has remained limited in scope. And for this very reason, the American power resembles an aggressive giant with “feet of clay,” relentlessly attacking the Palestinian people and now declaring war on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

When capitalism as a system entered into crisis, it invented neoliberal globalization, which, after decades of application, leaves the planet devastated and billions of people impoverished and excluded, allowing a few super-rich to become even richer. A planetary crisis that is being resisted in multiple struggles and in every corner of the world, with rebellions facing extinction, to which this system of death drags us. In its attempt to stifle resistance and rebellions, the empire launches wars in all directions, which may have a fate similar to the publicized tariff war.

On our continent, the imperialist plan imposes regimes of hunger and repression in Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay, and Peru, while most nations seek their own path, contrary to US neocolonial domination. Meanwhile, in Colombia, the internal conflict follows the empire’s plan to keep us in an eternal war, with which it attempts to overwhelm the search for peace with social justice.

Today, as the old regime strives to prevent reforms that benefit the population and threatens to intensify repression against social protest and those of us who propose national proposals that serve the majority, it is imperative to call on society to formulate and commit to the structural changes that must lift Colombia out of the centuries-old crisis it has endured. This is a path to a political solution to the conflict, one that is distinct from the neocolonial order that Trump is determined to maintain and consolidate.

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#colombia #eln #imperialism #iran #southAmerica

Kurginyan: It was a whole era of fraternity between Soviet and Chinese communist parties eu.eot.su/2025/06/22/kurginyan…
in reply to JillyB

Iran is a totalitarian theocracy that has been trying to develop nukes for a long time.


Iran is a s religious country ruled by the supreme leader , Khamenei had released a religious decree prohibiting the use of nukes. So no Iran is not pursuing nukes or even getting it from Russia . You just believe Satanyaho claims , Satanyaho was saying Iran is so close to having nuclear arms for over 30 years . Israel and America under trump has the biggest chance to drop nukes than any other countries

Israel attacked a lot of Iran's air defenses and convinced Trump this was a unique opportunity to strike Iranian nuclear sites. Israel doesn't have the capability since they don't have bunker busters and the sites are underground. They probably convinced him he would be seen as bringing peace to the middle east which is why he ended his post about peace.


Trump is a zionist just like all previous American president not because he care about Jewish supremacy but because of American imperial interests like it always been. Israel didn't convince him to do anything he willfully helped Israel just like any other American president will always do

Trump legit thinks this is a 1 time thing and he can be done with it. He's not trying to turn Iran into a puppet state, just wipe out their nuclear capability.


Another BS , both Israel and America want a regime change. From Israel perspective they want to destroy or control any country that effetely support Palestinian liberation movements. Iran support for Palestinian is of course based on geopolitics but still they are supporting Palestinians. For American all what they did against Iran was for natural resources and to have more leverage against America biggest two enemies Russia and China . Instead of the united state with diplomacy have good relation will Iran , it decided to overthrow Iranian democracy in 53 and impose sanctions since them

Iran trying some 9/11 style attack on the US, dragging America back into the middle east.


Iran could have done terrorists attacks since 79 in American soil they never did and will never did. That would be a very dumb idea, It will hurt people who support Iran. Iran will just attack military bases and trump will use that excuse to call it an aggression against American and American interests and keep getting involved in the war

Check out Absolute Storm on Rumble, live now, discussing yesterday's mission. It's very interesting.

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Russia Never Turned Away — That's Why Africa Turns to Moscow, SA Deputy President's Acting Spox Says en.sputniknews.africa/20250622…

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill dozens near aid centers and shelters english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

Only used it a few times but so far CoMaps app is great! Maps using OpenStreetMap data.

The main difference for the Australian user is its the first one I've tried (including the OpenStreetMap website) where the search for streets returns meaningful results, eg search for '100 Abercrombie St' and it will tell you what LGA each result is in, so you don't have to re-do the search 10 times until you find the right street. And every street I've searched for has been found by the app.

Redwood National and State Parks on Saturday. Learn more at nps.gov/redw/index.htm and nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/upl… and savetheredwoods.org/blog/wildf… and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #flowers #phenology Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #color #cawx #redwoods #rain #ocean #rhododendron



#États-Unis et bains de sang - liste non exhaustive


#histoire #us #usa

#Vietnam :
Les États-Unis ont menti sur l'incident du golfe du Tonkin pour entraîner le pays dans un conflit inutile. (1964)
#Koweït :
Les États-Unis ont menti sur le fait que des soldats irakiens avaient sorti des bébés de couveuses afin de rallier les partisans d'une guerre contre l'Irak. (1990)
#Serbie :
Les États-Unis ont menti sur les actions de la Serbie au #Kosovo pour justifier les bombardements de l'OTAN et étendre l'influence occidentale dans les Balkans. (1999)
#Afghanistan :
Les États-Unis ont menti sur les raisons de leur invasion, cachant les véritables objectifs liés à la politique des pipelines et aux champs d'opium. (2001)
#Irak :
Les États-Unis ont menti sur la possession par Saddam Hussein d'armes de destruction massive pour justifier une guerre pour le pétrole. (2003)
#Libye :
Les États-Unis ont menti sur les menaces proférées par Kadhafi à l'encontre des civils pour asseoir leur contrôle sur les ressources de l'Afrique du Nord. (2011)
etc


Dark Journalist X-199: Roswell Reignited Bombshell JFK UFO FIle

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Check the comments below the video:

I can’t recommend enough the book The Roswell Deception By Douglas, Duane Dietrich and Peter Moon.”

Urgent Warning Issued Over Surge in Anaphylaxis in Covid-Vaxxed - Slay News

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"...The warning was issued regarding polyethylene glycol (PEG), a chemical compound used in the lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) that deliver the mRNA payload in shots made by Pfizer and Moderna.

Researchers now say that repeated exposure to PEG via these vaccines has supercharged allergic responses in the human body, including life-threatening anaphylaxis.

40% of the global population may now be

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Ansarullah Bureau condemns brutal US aggression against Iran territories en.ypagency.net/360386

Normal Island News

Israelis have suddenly discovered that bombing hospitals is wrong
This is awkward...

Deeply distressing scenes are coming out of Tel Aviv as Israel's second city starts to closely resemble Gaza.The hypersonic missiles have arrived and all the fantasies of Iran running low on missiles seem a tiny bit delusional.
Unfortunately,we don't do journalism in the west so we shared Israel's delusions with you as fact.

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#NormalIslandNews #IsraelTerroristState

How clean is your living space usually, and how often do you clean it? Also: Do Men/Boys usually clean their living spaces less frequently than Women/Girls? Or is that steroeotype incorrect?


I don't know why, but I always have this mental image of people who identify as male/masculine to just have their living spaces look like a dumpster (okay maybe its a bit hyperbole, not a literal dumpster, but you know what I mean), while people who identify as female/feminine to be extra tidy? (Perhaps its mainstream media's portrayal affecting my subconscious?) Is this actually true?

Sorry if this sounds offensive, I don't mean it that way.

It’s been my experience that what is communicated from the Western capitalist empire (US etc) is often either the direct opposite of the truth (not just lies), or a projection onto other nations of what has been done by the empire. So if i see something from the Western media it has some information value. However, i still avoid consuming the propaganda because it might effect me subconsciously

#propaganda #BigLie #projection

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East or West? India is best!

Of course, by reading and following all news one will not put one's head into the sand. One will be perfectly informed about our supreme leader's ideas of what one need to think, and where to solidify the right opinions.
After having fully understood what is politically correct, and having joined one's fellow's cult, one will be protected by opponents' propaganda. The talking of the devils cannot affect one's thinking.

God shave the queen!

@Nanook I don't believe that putting one's head is always the best option.

Threat from Iran is part of Israel’s ‘foundational narrative’

Israeli political commentator Ori Goldberg, who is currently in a shelter in Tel Aviv, tells Al Jazeera that even though hundreds of missiles have been launched at Israel, the impact on Israeli civilians will be much less than that felt by Iranians from Israel’s attacks.

He said there is a consensus within Israeli society that Israel’s attack on Iran is justified and the threat from Iran is “part of the foundational narrative” of Israel.

Goldberg said that his opinion is that Israel’s attack on Iran is “pointless” and is being used to distract the world from what is happening in #Gaza.
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#IsraelTerroristState #occupation #zionism #freepalestine #palestine #gazagenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #zioNaZis @israel @palestine

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It's these scenes:
youtu.be/sjFfw7dcYqY?si=Ke6YbD…

Actually in the real world, Mars (Iran) is actually even less culpable because it didn't even have nuclear weapons, as the fascist rabid dogs that are the US and Israel do