Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited

jfischet writes "Back in 2005 a Slashdot user asked this question and the responses were helpful — but I'd like to ask again to see what has changed in three years. I'd like to know what this community thinks is the best choice of smartphone for remotely administering Linux/UNIX boxes via SSH."

Comments

Palm OS + pssh

[Anonymous Coward]

If you have a Palm OS device (i.e. a Treo), then pssh is still the way to go. Alas no, this solution hasn't changed since 2005...

Re:The iPhone, of course.

[brenddie]

this guy has a good example http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

First Hater Alert

[SuperKendall]

When I read the headline, I thought "I wonder how long it's going to take for some fanboy to recommend the iPhone, despite the fact that it doesn't have a keyboard & is inferior for text entry compared to say a blackberry, or even some of the HTC monstrosities."

The iPhone is fine for typing text. And the fully dynamic interface allows for some interesting possibilities for shell control, along with more room for a wider view on the screen. Penny Aracde of course, put it best... "If you find such things unpleasant, then I suggest you develop a taste for forced labor because by the year twenty-twenty all that sneer is going to get you is a slot in the underclass boiling corpses."

Don't be so dismissive until you see what terminal possibilities might arrive with the SDK.

And there you were - right in the first post. Thank you for reaffirming my faith in fanboi nature.

Don't your eyes scratch a lot with that wool you keep pulling over yourself?