Maybe you are wondering as I did, What is mosh? The definition from the mosh page says: I have to admit Blink Shell is very, very good, it’s designed for mobile devices and has support for mosh. At first, I didn’t like the fact you have to buy it without a trial but since there were several recommendations I gave it a try (USD 19.99 at the date of publication of this post). Blink Shell appeared as recurring recommendation on Internet articles. The first thing I had to look for was a decent ssh client for iPad. Below I explain the details of this configuration. This option is not bad, but having a workstation at home I didn’t see the need to go to the cloud.įollowing some of these suggestions I ended up installing Blink Shell that comes with mosh support, and using tmux on my remote Linux laptop I was able to achieve this. In fact, I read an article that suggested using a Digital Ocean Droplet to have a virtual machine in the cloud and from there be able to work. While the iPad has many advantages and things that I really liked, it seems the term “Pro” is not enough to have a complete terminal as you can find in an operating system or to have a functional virtual machine, so I decided to investigate if there is an option to use it as a client that connects somewhere else where I can have access to a complete operating system. The truth is I recently got an iPad Pro 11” and among the things I tried was the possibility to use it as a light work equipment, that is, a computer that I can have on hand on my bedside table without it being a complete computer. It’s been a while since I posted on the blog, first because I couldn’t find something interesting to share and second because there wasn’t much spare time (It’s not that now there’s a lot of time to spare but well, one make some time to write a few lines).

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