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OpenBSD Up & Running on Sharp Zaurus

Posted by timothy on from the schmallness dept.

Eh-Wire writes "OpenBSD is now up and running on the Sharp Zaurus C3000. A photograph of the OpenBSD powered Zaurus shows it sitting beside another fine Western Canadian product that can boast an equal measure of integrity as that of the OpenBSD/Zaurus OS - Big Rock Beer! The world now has a fully capable ssh machine that fits in a shirt pocket. Good work guys!"

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  1. Re:I already have a small SSH device by biglig2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Who doesn't have a fully capable ssh client in their shirt pocket?

    PuTTY works on Symbian S60 and S90 and QIC and PPC and lots of other things, as does Mochasoft.

    ssh for blackberry is at http://www.needtext.net/shell/index.jsp

    ssh for palmos is at http://www.sealiesoftware.com/pssh/

    ssh for native Sharp Zaurus (i.e. without replacing the OS) is at http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1 035

    ssh for Pocket PC is at http://pocketputty.duxy.net/viewtopic.php?t=5

    ssh for Symbol industrial handhelds is at http://www.pragmasys.com/HandHeld/industrial_pocke tvt_index.html

    ssh for non-smartphones (i.e. regular phones that have a JVM) is at http://www.idokorro.com/imsshphone.html

    I couldn't find ssh for the Newton, I admit. But that doesn't fit in a shirt pocket.

    Did I miss anything? Anyone ported it to the ipod yet?

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    ~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
  2. Re:Man, that's wonderful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hm, it actually *is* available. Check this out:
    http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS5552772338.html

  3. Re:I already have a small SSH device by Tet · · Score: 3, Informative

    I too already have a small SSH device -- a Sharp Zaurus SL-C860. Much as I love OpenBSD, I'll be sticking with Linux on my Zaurus. I use it with a bluetooth mobile phone to remotely ssh into our production servers when I'm on call and away from a fixed net connection. Unlike using PuTTY directly on the phone, the Zaurus has a full qwerty keyboard, which actually makes it usable.

    --
    "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
  4. Re:I already have a small SSH device by bobv-pillars-net · · Score: 3, Informative
    Did I miss anything?

    PocketPutty doesn't run on PocketPC 2002. If you have an older PocketPC, you can run PockeTTY. It's not free software, but it's well worth the small price I paid for it.

    --
    The Web is like Usenet, but
    the elephants are untrained.
  5. Re:I already have a small SSH device by Kahm-Hime · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.slackwaregallery.com/albums/userpics/10 249/z-work-area-sm.JPG

    That's my 3000. The two devices to the left are a 40gb hard drive and a CD-Burner, both fully functional. The mouse and keyboard do belong to the Zaurus. These things make a fantastic laptop replacement. In fact, I no longer carry a PDA, Laptop, or MP3 player (because I have a wired music remote for the Zaurus).

    Although I have to admit that I'm running linux - A beta version of the stock rom that has been rebuilt along the lines of this: http://www.cacko.biz/

    And I should point out that SSH, both client and server, do work just fine under linux :)