[Info-vax] HP open sources the Palm operating system (WebOS)

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Wed Dec 14 09:11:38 EST 2011


On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:41:49 +0100, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote 2011-12-14 13:00:
>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:33:00 +0100, MG wrote:
>>
>>> For all the faults of the iPad and iOS, I do really miss the program
>>> "iSSH" a lot!  It included a very capable X server and it was able to
>>> run DECwindows with unpatched VMS V8.4 over SSH.  A very nice touch,
>>> if I may say so.  I even have a video on my website at DR (hosted at
>>> YouTube) demonstrating this.
>>
>> One of my friends uses his iPhone extensively for logging into servers
>> and checking the status of out of hours jobs.  He started out by
>> Jailbreaking it to get the apps he wanted, but last time I enquired he
>> didn't need to do that any more.
>>
>>
> I tested a few telnet apps for my Android (SonyEricson Xperia 10) but
> never found anything that actualy "worked". I did get the "Username:"
> prompt sometimes but it usualy crashed soon after that.
> 

I really wouldn't recommend telnet for logging into remote servers. I use 
ssh everywhere nowadays, even on my home LAN.

Are there any decent ssh apps for Android?


-- 
Paul Sture



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