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Re:A small notebook for a system administrator by PascLeRasc on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:28PM (#19056197)
I've been using iSH on the iPhone for my portable SSH client, it works pretty great for server maintenance even with the on-screen keyboard.

https://github.com/tbodt/ish

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Re:A small notebook for a system administrator by throwanem on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:48PM (#19058435)
I use Prompt these days, but iSSH's Remote Desktop client was super useful back when I was doing admin work and didn't have the luxury of never needing to work on a Windows server!

As I recall, I also used its X server for remote display from an OpenGenera instance running on a Tru64 VM, back when I was still indulging my hobby for Lisp system archaeology, and network problems were stopping me displaying to the VM host's X server. Good times...

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Re:A small notebook for a system administrator by bigbugbag on Sunday February 03, 2019 @09:07AM (#19069607)
iphone lacks vital hardware, it has no keyboard.

lacking a keyboard is abysmal productivity vs being able to type and do key combinations.

try using stuff like vim/emacs or byobu/screen on an iphone, try to select and middle click to copy/paste, or any of the key combination we use all the time in the shell.

no keyboard = no go.

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