'''IMPORTANT''': All shell accounts require a sponsor and are available only to core Sugar Labs contributors.
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A shell account;
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* requires a sponsor,
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* is only available to core contributors,
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* is only for when an existing public service such as GitHub cannot help.
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'''IMPORTANT''': A shell account makes sense only if you're '''already''' comfortable using ssh and the Linux command line. The SL systems administrators are not tutors.
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A shell account makes sense only if you're '''already''' comfortable using ssh and the Linux command line. The SL systems administrators are not tutors.