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I have never used chromeOS, does it have a terminal or is there some sort of ssh as a service?

by yoz-y 10y ago

kevinnk 10y ago
It has a built in terminal called crosh, which might have an SSH client built in (I'm not sure). What most people do is download a chrome extension like Secure Shell[1] that lets you ssh from a tab. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
- fragmede 10y ago
  Sadly, ssh was removed from crosh just recently. crosh> ssh The 'ssh' command has been removed. Please install the official SSH extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo crosh>
toast0 10y ago
There's an ssh client in the chrome store($0, I think it's published by google). It runs as a chrome tab (one tab per connection), which means you do waste some screen space for browser UI that doesn't make sense, but it's workable.
- jsolson 10y ago
  You can (or could, anyway) force it to open in a window (right click the app icon and select "open in window"). This allows you to go really fullscreen and fixes control keys (C-w works again rather than closing the tab).
fragmede 10y ago
There's a chrome extension by Google that provides a supported way to ssh on ChromeOS, from the device. There's limited support for SSH keys built in, and there's also a mosh extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec... (It's pretty easy to enable developer mode in order to allow unsigned code to run, and then Ubuntu/other Linux can run it in a chroot, though education/corporate deployments can/should prohibit that by policy, so isn't relevant to the larger discussion, though it means personal ChromeOS laptops can be quite functional.)
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m-j-fox 10y ago
Me neither, but this looks interesting: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForChromeBooks https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForChromeBooks I might pick one up at Fry's today just for giggles. Update: Tried to run the NaCl Development Environment on my macbook to get a taste and it just crashes on launch. Seems like a lot of people have the same problem on chromebooks too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nacl-development-environm/aljpgkjeipgnmdpikaajmnepbcfkglfa/support?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nacl-development-e... So maybe I'm not so excited to run out and buy a chromebook for development just yet.

I have never used chromeOS, does it have a terminal or is there some sort of ssh as a service?

by yoz-y 10y ago

I have never used chromeOS, does it have a terminal or is there some sort of ssh as a service?

It has a built in terminal called crosh, which might have an SSH client built in (I'm not sure). What most people do is download a chrome extension like Secure Shell[1] that lets you ssh from a tab. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...

fragmede 10y ago
Sadly, ssh was removed from crosh just recently. crosh> ssh The 'ssh' command has been removed. Please install the official SSH extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo crosh>

toast0 10y ago

There's an ssh client in the chrome store($0, I think it's published by google). It runs as a chrome tab (one tab per connection), which means you do waste some screen space for browser UI that doesn't make sense, but it's workable.

jsolson 10y ago
You can (or could, anyway) force it to open in a window (right click the app icon and select "open in window"). This allows you to go really fullscreen and fixes control keys (C-w works again rather than closing the tab).

fragmede 10y ago

There's a chrome extension by Google that provides a supported way to ssh on ChromeOS, from the device. There's limited support for SSH keys built in, and there's also a mosh extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec... (It's pretty easy to enable developer mode in order to allow unsigned code to run, and then Ubuntu/other Linux can run it in a chroot, though education/corporate deployments can/should prohibit that by policy, so isn't relevant to the larger discussion, though it means personal ChromeOS laptops can be quite functional.)

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m-j-fox 10y ago

Me neither, but this looks interesting: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForChromeBooks https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForChromeBooks I might pick one up at Fry's today just for giggles. Update: Tried to run the NaCl Development Environment on my macbook to get a taste and it just crashes on launch. Seems like a lot of people have the same problem on chromebooks too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nacl-development-environm/aljpgkjeipgnmdpikaajmnepbcfkglfa/support?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nacl-development-e... So maybe I'm not so excited to run out and buy a chromebook for development just yet.