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>Despite being a UNIX die-hard, I rather like Windows Phone. I love the UX of Windows Phone but what has kept me from getting a WP8 device for myself is the la

>Despite being a UNIX die-hard, I rather like Windows Phone. I love the UX of Windows Phone but what has kept me from getting a WP8 device for myself is the lack of an SSH client as configurable as JuiceSSH for Android or PuTTY for Symbian (as far as I'm aware). Is there one fit for a UNIX die-hard? The killer feature of JuiceSSH for me (which was a major reason why I decided to stay on Android) is transparent SSH hopping. Another, lesser, concern is the lack text reflow in IE but I think we can expect that to be addressed soon. It's one of the top feature requests.

harrytuttle 13y ago
I gave up on SSH on "glass" devices so this is fine for me. Too easy to FUBAR something from miskeying. I switch on the WiFi hotspot on the device and use PuTTY on my ThinkPad instead.
- networked 13y ago
  >I gave up on SSH on "glass" devices so this is fine for me. Too easy to FUBAR something from miskeying. As I've said in a previous HN thread on WP8 (edit: [1]), now that Android devices with QWERTY keyboards are being phased out it could be a real opportunity for Windows Phone if Microsoft encouraged vendors to ship devices with physical keyboards. How viable a market this is, I wonder? I imagine past Nokia Eseries users (like myself) would appreciate it, as should at least some of the enterprise Blackberry users Microsoft seems after. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6200051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6200051
martijn_himself 13y ago
As a UNIX newbie and owner of an Android device, could you give an example of typical use cases of SSH on a phone? I may give it a go myself. EDIT: I just noticed this is a SSH client rather than server right? Can you really do much on such a cramped keyboard or is it for use in emergency situations?
- networked 13y ago
  I use SSH to check up on the status of and control the services running on my home and work servers (I make good use of the aforementioned transparent hopping feature for the latter). To easier manage things over SSH on devices with a limited input rate I've set up one-letter bash aliases and scripted dialog(1) menus, e.g., to look at temperature sensor data or to change the running state of the motion detection camera system I've set up at home (using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_%28surveillance_software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_%28surveillance_softwar...). A little while ago when I used a QWERTY S60v3 device from Nokia I would routinely issue more complex commands from my phone and have even written a few short shell scripts but I'd rather not do that on a touchscreen. Edit: As for running an SSH server on a phone, I run one on a Palm Pre Plus that I've set up for use exclusively as a portable wireless flash drive / file server with a Debian chroot. It's also convenient to have on a Pre because much of UI in webOS consists of regular HTML and JavaScript files you can edit with vim/nano to do things like adding extra settings for how long the phone stays running when not given user input (you want to be able to set this value high on a server).
  - martijn_himself 13y ago
    Great summary- thank you I will give it a go.

harrytuttle 13y ago

I gave up on SSH on "glass" devices so this is fine for me. Too easy to FUBAR something from miskeying. I switch on the WiFi hotspot on the device and use PuTTY on my ThinkPad instead.

networked 13y ago
>I gave up on SSH on "glass" devices so this is fine for me. Too easy to FUBAR something from miskeying. As I've said in a previous HN thread on WP8 (edit: [1]), now that Android devices with QWERTY keyboards are being phased out it could be a real opportunity for Windows Phone if Microsoft encouraged vendors to ship devices with physical keyboards. How viable a market this is, I wonder? I imagine past Nokia Eseries users (like myself) would appreciate it, as should at least some of the enterprise Blackberry users Microsoft seems after. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6200051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6200051

martijn_himself 13y ago

As a UNIX newbie and owner of an Android device, could you give an example of typical use cases of SSH on a phone? I may give it a go myself. EDIT: I just noticed this is a SSH client rather than server right? Can you really do much on such a cramped keyboard or is it for use in emergency situations?

networked 13y ago
I use SSH to check up on the status of and control the services running on my home and work servers (I make good use of the aforementioned transparent hopping feature for the latter). To easier manage things over SSH on devices with a limited input rate I've set up one-letter bash aliases and scripted dialog(1) menus, e.g., to look at temperature sensor data or to change the running state of the motion detection camera system I've set up at home (using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_%28surveillance_software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_%28surveillance_softwar...). A little while ago when I used a QWERTY S60v3 device from Nokia I would routinely issue more complex commands from my phone and have even written a few short shell scripts but I'd rather not do that on a touchscreen. Edit: As for running an SSH server on a phone, I run one on a Palm Pre Plus that I've set up for use exclusively as a portable wireless flash drive / file server with a Debian chroot. It's also convenient to have on a Pre because much of UI in webOS consists of regular HTML and JavaScript files you can edit with vim/nano to do things like adding extra settings for how long the phone stays running when not given user input (you want to be able to set this value high on a server).
- martijn_himself 13y ago
  Great summary- thank you I will give it a go.