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While you may be familiar with your uoregon.edu account because you use it for email, or because you use it to log in to the wireless network, Blackboard, or other resources, there's much more that you can do with it.
Shell.uoregon.edu, currently just an alias for the systems formerly known as darkwing.uoregon.edu and gladstone.uoregon.edu, is meant to be a general- purpose Unix system where you can work at the shell prompt. That system is currently running Solaris 2.8, but it is our intent to move it to RedHat Enterprise Linux as we continue with the rolling replacement of the systems once known as Darkwing and Gladstone.
To access your shell account, login with ssh (PC Duckware includes an ssh client, and Mac OS X ships with ssh--see http://micro.uoregon.edu/security/ssh/mac/osx/ ). Once you've logged in, you'll be at the "percent sign prompt" and you can type Unix commands to perform tasks such as writing and compiling programs or running statistical programs.
If you're new to Unix, the Documents Room in the 175 McKenzie Hall can suggest good books to help get you started, and we have a one-page "cheat sheet" available at http://cc.uoregon.edu/basicunix.html )
Just to mention one feature of your uoregon.edu account, it also will allow you to publish personal web pages (those pages do count against your 250MB worth of disk space, just as your email does); for more information about doing this, please see http://cc.uoregon.edu/acrobatdocs/webpage_unix.pdf
Please also review UO's acceptable use policy to ensure that you don't inadvertently publish unacceptable pages, such as those for commercial purposes (UO's acceptable use policy is available online at http://cc.uoregon.edu/acrobatdocs/acceptable_use.pdf )
The acad-cl machines are designed to accommodate numerically intensive work; shell.uoregon.edu is meant to handle more general-purpose shell prompt tasks.
If you have questions about using your shell account, please email consult@uoregon.edu or call 346-1758.