mosh on kindle?

qlob · 04-17-2012, 10:46 PM

Hi! (long time lurker here)
I was wondering if anyone had thought about mosh for the kindle 3 as i would really enjoy that. I would love to build it myself but gcc and i dont get along very well even on my desktop box. Source code i available at mosh.mit.edu .

qlobthehorse

qlob · 04-17-2012, 11:00 PM

FYI:I am not looking to utilize the kindle 3's 3g capabilities. My home internet ip is always changing and i like some features of mosh compared to ssh.

NiLuJe · 04-18-2012, 03:06 AM

Heh, looks like a fun little project! I'll look into it for the next usbnet release, it doesn't sound much more complicated than building it and putting it in $PATH, since the server is spawned on demand via SSH, we just have to make sure there's a proper UTF-8 setup on the Kindle side (which might not exactly be the case, I seem to remember disabling htop's utf-8 support for some reason besides ncursesw not being shipped on the Kindle...).

qlob · 04-18-2012, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Heh, looks like a fun little project! I'll look into it for the next usbnet release, it doesn't sound much more complicated than building it and putting it in $PATH, since the server is spawned on demand via SSH, we just have to make sure there's a proper UTF-8 setup on the Kindle side (which might not exactly be the case, I seem to remember disabling htop's utf-8 support for some reason besides ncursesw not being shipped on the Kindle...).

Great Idea! I didn't even think about using it for usbnet but it would be useful b/c at least for me my desktop wants to disconnect and reconnect every 2 or 3 seconds with the kindle and it gives it a new ip every time.i usually diagose the the ip problem with something like
sudo watch 2 ifconfig usb0 192.168.2.1
but it stil is cycling and mosh could help by reconnecting after it cycles.

qlob · 04-18-2012, 02:28 PM

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NiLuJe · 06-14-2012, 11:04 PM

Turned out to be a bit more complicated than expected, because it's C++, has an uncommon dep, and the libstdc++ bundled on the K3 is fracking ancient.

Anyway, couldn't bundle the client, since it depends on a perl wrapper, but, barring any last minute issue, the server should make its way into the next USBNetwork release (in a few days).

Turns out it's not that efficient on the tiny K3 CPU, but, oh, well, it works, if a bit sluggishly.

04-17-2012, 10:46 PM	#1
qlob Official Lurker Posts: 1,050 Karma: 7096675 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Kindle 3.4	mosh on kindle? Hi! (long time lurker here) I was wondering if anyone had thought about mosh for the kindle 3 as i would really enjoy that. I would love to build it myself but gcc and i dont get along very well even on my desktop box. Source code i available at mosh.mit.edu . qlobthehorse

04-17-2012, 11:00 PM	#2
qlob Official Lurker Posts: 1,050 Karma: 7096675 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Kindle 3.4	FYI:I am not looking to utilize the kindle 3's 3g capabilities. My home internet ip is always changing and i like some features of mosh compared to ssh. Last edited by qlob; 04-17-2012 at 11:03 PM. Reason: spelling

04-18-2012, 02:28 PM	#5
qlob Official Lurker Posts: 1,050 Karma: 7096675 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Kindle 3.4	.....[removed for being irrelevant]..... Last edited by qlob; 04-19-2012 at 04:44 PM.

06-14-2012, 11:04 PM	#6
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047190 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Turned out to be a bit more complicated than expected, because it's C++, has an uncommon dep, and the libstdc++ bundled on the K3 is fracking ancient. Anyway, couldn't bundle the client, since it depends on a perl wrapper, but, barring any last minute issue, the server should make its way into the next USBNetwork release (in a few days). Turns out it's not that efficient on the tiny K3 CPU, but, oh, well, it works, if a bit sluggishly. Last edited by NiLuJe; 06-14-2012 at 11:28 PM.

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04-18-2012, 03:06 AM	#3
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047190 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Heh, looks like a fun little project! I'll look into it for the next usbnet release, it doesn't sound much more complicated than building it and putting it in $PATH, since the server is spawned on demand via SSH, we just have to make sure there's a proper UTF-8 setup on the Kindle side (which might not exactly be the case, I seem to remember disabling htop's utf-8 support for some reason besides ncursesw not being shipped on the Kindle...).

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