Govinda is one of the names of the Hindu god Krishna, the eighth and principal avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu, often depicted as a handsome young man playing a flute.
If you want to know more about Govinda you can check the information at dedicated bitacora.
Govinda is a Pentium II Machine that works at 233MHz with 64 MB RAM. It is built with GNU/Linux Debian, which means, it is built using Free Software.
The first time Govinda was 'alive' was only for around five minutes. The fact was that I wrote to an IRC channel the login/password of one guest account for testing and celebrating that I managed to build the system. The result was that Govinda was down in five minutes. Surely somebody took profit of the account and executed some exploit or something similar inside the system. How clever you have to be to do that! The hard work is to enter inside a system and take privileges, not to crash it with an account.
Anyway it wasn't too important for Govinda since there wasn't any important data stored - thankfully he was just born, so there wasn't much inside him -, in fact it was fun and useful for me to repeat the building procedure. Along the next day Govinda was up again, open to the world with SSH and providing WEB Hosting with Apache and PHP supported. Soon the databases PostgreSQL and MySQL were also accessible via web thanks to their WEB front-ends phppgadmin and phpmyadmin respectively.
Working with the system I found some problems, and trying to find help, I met Gaurav Masand at LinuxQuestions.org. After our discussion he accepted a free space on Govinda for his GNU/Linux documentation project. Like this, I noticed that the idea of providing space and services at Govinda could be possible and useful.
Around one year later from Govinda awakening, I received this email that has allowed Govinda to join to Free Community and since then we are cooperating perfectly.
.:: My apologies ::.
I don't acept more new Shell Accounts requests because I need to restructure the server. Pending request until 21.06.2007 will be take into account, but not older.
Feel free to shurf around the site, you will be able to know about the begining of this project and check some links those will help you to know and understand more about some concepts this system is based on at About Govinda section. You can also find useful links at other sections as Govinda's Friends or Help Recipes.
Note that maybe you will find some broken links, since in live all changes... this is not an exception, but most of them I guess they are still working, as Make a Donation button ;)
These are not bad news, Govinda is part from Free Community and we have ArgoPI that is a powerful server with basically the same policy as Govinda. Visit ArgoPIand apply there for a Shell Account. Please, be patience. You will have a reponse.
Probably, the fastest way to agree to your request is to send an email to our group, since it is read by all members and not only by one person who can be busy to attend to your request.
Message updated on 09.04.2010.
Visit the new branch of this project.
You can request for an account sending an e-mail to the following address: amimusa_AT_gmail.com. If you are in a hurry, consider to subscribe to our group following this link and make your request to the group or you can try to join to our IRC channel following this LINK or connecting to irc.freenode.net #nipl with your favourite IRC client.
To request for a Shell Account, please send this information in your email:
Real Name
Country/Origin
Desired user login
eMail (if it is different)
How you have found this site
If you feel happy with Govinda's services and you want to contribute, you can do it following this button.
NOTE: Before July I need to renew the domain, so any help will be appreciate. Trying to save this money I lost my old domian .org that now is an advertisement site, so DON'T visit amimusa.org.
The last renew domain was financed by Sam Watkins.
If you are lost and you need some support, the first advice is to read this document. It explains the iSupport Philosophy. It can be useful to learn how to put questions to get help.
System support
Linuxquestions
-- The site where linux users go to ask for help.
Reference for developers
W3Schools
-- The largest WEB Developers site on the net.
The site requires autentication. Please, click cancel to see the bookmarks list. You will need a login/passwd to enter to the admin zone. If you are interesting in checking it, don't hesitate contact me at the email address amimusa_AT_gmail.com.
To examine the admin section the site require an admin account. If you are interesting in checking it, don't hesitate contact me at the email address amimusa_AT_gmail.com.
Soon a web-based software project management will be available to get the source of these applications.
9th of Apr 2010:
Reactive webpage and update content
4th of Jan 2008:
Add Govinda's friends links
15th of Nov 2007:
Add Govinda's friends links and code website code clean up
13th of Nov 2007:
Help Recipes Update and some broken links fixed
21th of Jun 2007:
Govinda doesn't acept more Shell Account Request. Argo will help to the new incoming shell request.
4th of Jun 2007:
MySQL front-end working.
26th of May 2007:
After Govinda upgrade MySQL front-end and Mail System doesn't work.
24th of May 2007:
Govinda has been upgraded to the new stable GNU/Linux Debian version, etch.
23th of May 2007:
Govinda has been down due to an internal attack, users al and netstar has been purged from the system.
19th of March 2007:
Govinda can send emails. Thanks to redondos@irc.freenode.org#networking for his help and Sam Watkins for allowing Alice relays Govinda's mails.
13th of March 2007: The content of the site has been modified and restructured.
