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HOWTO: Start an SSH Session from ChromeOS
My lovely fiance knows how much I love my toys and opted to get me one of the new ARM based Chrome books as an early Christmas present. I’d been talking a lot about the device because the hardware on it is fairly fantastic for the 250$ price tag it comes with. At any rate – I’ll be writing up a full formal review of the device at a later date (once I have had a chance to use it more). I also plan to create Bodhi ARM images for the device once time permits.
Until I have time to get Bodhi running on the device though I am stuck with ChromeOS – which while interesting leaves some to be desired. At the very least I need my operating system to have a web browser and a ssh connection – the former ChromeOS provides very obviously (the whole OS is one giant web browser). Getting an SSH connection from the device was not as straight forward however. I started by searching for a terminal emulator on the Chrome Web Store. As you can see – there are a few options there, but none of them would successfully open a ssh connection to my build servers from my Chrome Book.
A little bit off searching on the Linux answer machine yielded me a proper solution from the comment section of a posting. To get a SSH connection on ChromeOS you do not need to add any software! Pressing the key combination:
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2012-12-07 20:41:57
Source: http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2012/12/howto-start-ssh-session-from-chromeos.html
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