That's wonderful and I know why it's an Indian founder. Was so hard to get a remote shell back then. Indian debit cards didn't work online reliably and so on. So what's the hardware underneath? Cloud server or on-prem?
These days the world is amazing. Oracle Cloud gives you a ton for free. But perhaps there's some niche where this is useful. I have to say that this shared screen comms system is outrageously crazy, hahaha.
It began as on-prem, Freston hosted in his house (we shared server cost, some people called it crazy, because I sent money to someone I met in Linuxforums.org and never seen this person, even via internet, I trusted him because I know him for few years on that forum) After 3 years or so we moved on to cloud servers. Mostly switching from one infra and another if we get some credits :D Couple of years we had Linode sponsoring those nodes until its acquisition.
>shared screen comms system is outrageously crazy,
Thats Freston idea. I remember our typically chat begins with something like
"Hey Laks, Can you see me typing!" ;)
In past I have seen around 10 process, but I think with current setup, it could support around upto 20 UML. Remember this runs on the same server where others login and get their normal bash account too. So not a dedicated UML server.
UML is a smart call, and reminds me when I built an inventory and shift scheduling system on wordpress in 2017.
somtimes the "wrong" / "old" tool for some job is exactly right for you if you really understand it. UML is old but fits here.
15 years is long enough to call memory about a lot of things.
That's wonderful and I know why it's an Indian founder. Was so hard to get a remote shell back then. Indian debit cards didn't work online reliably and so on. So what's the hardware underneath? Cloud server or on-prem?
These days the world is amazing. Oracle Cloud gives you a ton for free. But perhaps there's some niche where this is useful. I have to say that this shared screen comms system is outrageously crazy, hahaha.
It began as on-prem, Freston hosted in his house (we shared server cost, some people called it crazy, because I sent money to someone I met in Linuxforums.org and never seen this person, even via internet, I trusted him because I know him for few years on that forum) After 3 years or so we moved on to cloud servers. Mostly switching from one infra and another if we get some credits :D Couple of years we had Linode sponsoring those nodes until its acquisition.
>shared screen comms system is outrageously crazy,
Thats Freston idea. I remember our typically chat begins with something like "Hey Laks, Can you see me typing!" ;)
Feels like the real value here is zero setup.
Even spinning up a VM can be enough friction for beginners. A browser shell is kind of “good enough” for that.
Probably why tools like this keep sticking around. Wanna try.
All that on a single Github Sponsor[0].
[0] https://github.com/sponsors/Lakshmipathi
It's been a while since I've used it but Google cloud shell is a good free platform for learning Linux commands as well
https://shell.cloud.google.com
This is so fascinating, I've never heard of UML!
How many users can this support simultaneously? It says 256MB RAM per user, 8GB total on server? But it's probably more than 32 simultaneous users?
In past I have seen around 10 process, but I think with current setup, it could support around upto 20 UML. Remember this runs on the same server where others login and get their normal bash account too. So not a dedicated UML server.
Well that server is worth 1M due to the 8GB RAM now!
I wonder how much money went into the hosting over the years.
A year ago I bought a Intel N100 Mini PC with 16 GB DDR5 RAM and a 512 GB SSD for $170.
Maybe it could have hosted the site too. It's certainly a lot faster than Azure VMs with 4 "vCPUs".
User mode linux is so cool.
Yes, User mode linux pretty cool project. If I'm not wrong, UML is kind of predecessor to gvisor or firecracker from a different era.
I've never tried Webminal (only used Linode for it's simplicity). But, it seems great. I'll probably try it out.
Sure thanks, Let me know if you have feedback.
This is a good reminder that good enough + zero setup often beats more powerful solutions.
iximuiz also give you 1 hour per day free i think.
very easy to use. almost instant.
blegh, the content is interesting but i've grown numb towards AI speak. It's so generic that I lose interest halfway through.
Yeah, the content itself is amazing but the AI writing detracts from that. I'd much rather read broken English than GPT output.
That being said I really enjoyed reading this, and I'm looking forward to trying it out.