Ctrl-C.club is a Linux server offering free shell and web accounts to users who want to build webpages, chat online, learn Linux, play text console games, or fiddle around writing software.
Ctrl-C.club was inspired and guided by the tilde.club experiment.
Who made this?This server is built and maintained by Eric Budd.
Hosting is provided by Mount Olive Software, LLC
Initial funding provided by Chad Dumler-Montplaisir.
Hosted at Digital Ocean.
Tilde.club was started by Paul Ford.
How can I get in touch?Send an email to admin@ctrl-c.club
I don't get it?Think of it as a dirty open-source hippie handing out freebies in order to make more dirty open-source hippies.
What can I do with a Ctrl-C.club account?| Use Ruby! It's fantastic! | ruby 2.3.7 |
| D is a fantastic compiled language. | gdc 10.3.0 |
| Use Javascript without the browser. | node 12.21.0 |
| Write in purely functional Haskell. | ghc 8.8.4 |
| Want to go older-school with some C? | gcc 10.3.0 |
| Try some classic PHP. | php 7.4.16 |
| If you like Perl, we don't judge. | perl 5.32.1 |
| Love Google? Try their Go languange. | go 1.16.2 |
| Make your own text adventure games! | i7 6M62 |
| Python is a fast dynamic language. | python3 3.9.5 |
| Want six 9s of uptime? Erlang is your friend. | erl 11.1.8 |
| Fans of Mathematica will like GNU Octave. | octave 6.1.1 |
| Practice your SQL chops with SQLite! | sqlite3 3.34.1 |
| Java is quite popular. | java 11.0.11 |
| Rust is the Moz foundation's hot new language! | rustc 1.53.0 |
| Love Erlang VM, but hate the language? Try Elixir! | elixir 1.10.3 |
| Elm is a functional language for the browser. | elm 0.19.1 |
| Love Ruby syntax but it's just too slow? We have Crystal! | crystal 0.35.1 |
| OCaml is a fast, flexible language. | ocaml 4.11.1 |
| Pony is an actor-model, capabilities-secure language. | ponyc 0.45.0 |
| Clojure is a dynamic, functional, Lisp-like language. | clojure 1.10.2 |
| Mono is a .NET environment. | mono 6.12.0.122 |
| GForth is the GNU implementation of the super-tight stack language, Forth. | gforth 0.7.3 |
| Racket is for those who love a little old-school Lisp. | racket 7.8 |
| Lua is a lightweight, high-level, embedded programming language. | lua 5.3.3 |
| Nim is a statically typed, compiled systems programming language. | nim 1.4.2 |
| m4 is a general-purpose macro processor | m4 1.4.18 |
| SBCL is a high performance Common Lisp compiler. | sbcl 2.0.6 |
| R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics | R 4.1.2 |
| Bywater BASIC is a classic programming language. | bwbasic 2.2.0 |
We have older versions of a few languages:
| Python is a fast dynamic language. | python 2.7.6 |
| Use Ruby! It's fantastic! | ruby 1.9.3 |
| Java is quite popular. | java 1.7.0/IcedTea 2.5.4 |
| Make your own text adventure games! | inform 6.31/i7 6M62 |
What programs are available in my Ctrl-C.club account?
A bunch. Working on a list.
Can I get [package] installed?Probably! Send an email with your suggestion to admin@ctrl-c.club
How much disk space do I get?The short answer is that there are no "hard" limits, but keep in mind that Ctrl-C.club is a shared resource. Let's all be good neighbors!
There's plenty of space for most kinds of development, basic data storage, etc., but please don't use it as a place to keep your music/movie collection. As a rule of thumb, using a few hundred megs should be fine, but once you start getting over that, it may be time to look at what you're trying to accomplish and consider whether Ctrl-C.club is the right place to keep those things.
If there's something you'd like to do that you think might use too much space, get in touch at admin@ctrl-c.club and we'll work something out!
What are the rules for Ctrl-C.club?This New Year's update should tell you what you need to know.