Glaanieboy said:
Hmm, looks like a unix shell emulator. It's slow (when I type really fast, the text comes slow), it doesn't support ssh (one of the reasons I installed it) and it's too large for me, because I only really want to have some kind of native support for ssh. Too bad.
NetRyder, you said ssh was built-in, yet I can't find it. Can you guide me?
That's very strange...bash actually runs as fast as cmd for me. No typing delays whatsoever. gcc takes a few seconds longer to compile as compared to a native *nix machine, but that's not a big delay either. That's one of the reasons why I've decided to leave this installed. It's awesome. I never really liked cygwin, so I got rid of it a week after I installed it.
In any case, maybe vern can share his experience with us as far as speed is concerned once he's installed it too.
Regarding ssh: You need to install the OpenSSH package (this also includes sshd, the ssh daemon) from the Interop Systems site. First thing is to bootstrap the package manager, as per the instructions on this page:
http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/pkg_install.htm
That's a one step process that you need to do just once in order to be able to install any extra packages in the future. Once that's done, head over to this page:
http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/warehouse.htm
You can either manually download the OpenSSH package to a directory and run "pkg_add openssh-current-bin.tgz" or install it directly using "pkg_add ftp://ftp.interopsystems.com/pkgs/3.5/openssh-current-bin.tgz" which will download and install the package. The second method tends to be a little slower (since the server is pretty slow in itself) and there's no progress meter to tell you how much is done, so it might seem like it's frozen, but it's not. I prefer to use the first method to download first, and then install, unless I need the dependency-checking (which I believe isn't required for OpenSSH).
Let me know how it works out.
P.S. If you're using this
only for the ssh client, it might be more prudent to just use something like Putty or Terraterm Pro, considering the amount of disk space SFU takes up.