Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> Open source wall-wart computer
> >> http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10170648-54.html
> > 
> >   Given that it runs linux, I really can't understand this: "It seems that
> > the only way to interact with it is via a Web browser."
> > 
> >   Exactly what stops it from supporting SSH, the de-facto way of using a
> > unix computer remotely?

> I think it's more likely a case that "web browser" and "internet" is the 
> same thing to this guy, in spite of his supposed credentials. :-)  "Can't 
> plug in a monitor" means "only web access" to him.

  It wouldn't even make any sense if the computer was only accessible
through a web browser. For example to install, configure and manage
software and their settings, they would have to develop a whole new
html-based interface and all the backing software, rather than simply
using the myriads of free, tested console-based unix programs out there
which are perfectly usable through ssh. (They could, of course, have a
simplified html frontend for configuring certain things easily with a
web browser, but it would be rather silly for it to be the *only* way
to access the system.)

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                                                          - Warp

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