On 08/28/2012 04:53 PM, Doran L. Barton wrote: > On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 04:02:07 PM Lloyd Brown wrote: >> At my work, we've been kicking around the idea of using tablets >> (probably Android) as remote sysadmin tools, rather than the linux >> netbooks we currently use. Since I don't have a tablet myself, I don't >> really know whether or not this is viable or not. I'm hoping someone on >> the list has tried it, and can say whether its a good idea or not, and why. >> >> Basically, what I need to be able to do is something like this: >> - Web browser >> - IM (XMPP) >> - VPN (either Cisco AnyConnect or OpenVPN) >> - Email >> - SSH >> - remote text editing (vim inside ssh session?) > I'm going to agree with Levi that a netbook/laptop is still the better way to > go. Tablets are maybe 80% there. If you don't have a physical keyboard, it's > going to be painful. That being said, there are bluetooth keyboards and, in > the case of tablets like the Asus Transformer series, dockable keyboards, but > in the case of apps like ConnectBot for Android, the SSH client is still > lacking in some ways and doesn't fully support keyboards like it needs to. >
More specifically, ConnectBot with a keyboard will send alpha characters. Nothing else seems to work for me; no numerics, specials, ctrl/alt/meta, etc. I'm about ready to replace android with debian for that and a few other reasons. And Levi, don't even get me started on iPads... ;-) ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
