Real Terminal, All Chrome

This is not a standard terminal replacement, it's a Chrome extension providing quicker access to koding.com's vm service. Vague headline, cool product but not relevant to me right now.

Would you really SSH through this to your server? I mean, what about security...

PSA: Don&#x27;t count on this to be secure. Not just because Koding can obviously monitor everything you do, but because the implementation appears to rely on some more or less flimsy kernel container isolation (user namespaces etc). This means hackers can break out of one instance of this and enter others. So please, don&#x27;t use this as a bouncing point to SSH to other servers or for anything else that might be even a little sensitive.<p>Also, it&#x27;s apparently unpatched since May:<p><pre><code> $ cat &#x2F;proc&#x2F;version Linux version 3.9.0-0-generic (root@salt-master.in.koding.com) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu&#x2F;Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #4userns5 SMP Mon May 13 06:15:34 PDT 2013</code></pre>

Does anyone know what Koding.com actually does? I watched both videos, read the &quot;NOW PUBLIC&quot; blog post, and I feel like it might be awesome - but I don&#x27;t know. Is there a page that details what the product actually is? Kinda feel dumb for even asking, but I can&#x27;t seem to find out?

I wanted to see Chrome[1] running in a Real Terminal[2]. I mean… lynx just isn&#x27;t good at Javascript.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;</a> [2] <a href="http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;terminals.classiccmp.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Main_Page</a>

It&#x27;s an app that provides a dedicated interface to VM services they offer. Not a general-purpose local terminal; not interested.

I am so, so tired of all this Koding spam. I&#x27;ve seen spam from multiple accounts (one of which was fka, who now admits to being a dev) on both HN and Reddit.

&quot;Terminal is the core of all development that’s ever been done in the history of computing.&quot;<p>... my high school hypercard stacks beg to differ...

So is <a href="http://koding.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;koding.com</a> a <a href="http://nitrous.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitrous.io</a> competitor? Can&#x27;t really tell at the moment since all the main page says right now is:<p>A new way for developers to work. Software development has finally evolved. It&#x27;s now social, in the browser and free.<p>And then throws an error about not being able to connect to the backend.<p>[edit] Hope it is since nitrous.io seems a bit expensive.

Really cool. A little slow to load, perhaps, but I say that with no knowledge of how much is going on behind the scenes.<p>I have only one real complaint, and it&#x27;s unique to me. I use a blank page as my new tab page instead of the default, and I could find no way to launch this extension other than setting my new tab page back to the default.<p>Edit: what&#x27;s the password for sudo?

so let me get this straight... they wrote a terminal app that sends all your code to some third party? wow yeah lets just throw security out the window. no mention of the privacy implications on any of this. not sure if any of my clients would want their intellectual property sent out to some random third party. thanks but no thanks. i&#x27;d rather use xterm or gnome-terminal.

This is pretty awesome - they are ahead of the curve. It&#x27;s quite appealing to be able to have access to a full dev environment&#x2F;VM with just Google Chrome as a prerequisite. I know Google does a lot of development with a similar sort of tool - nice that this sort of infrastructure is rolled out for smaller shops.

I was thinking about creating this sort of service the other day... is this Docker under the covers?

I was hoping to try this on my iphone... I made it past registration but the site doesn&#x27;t seem too mobile (small screen) friendly after that. I wasn&#x27;t able to read or close the modal that came up.

I was hoping for a better CROSH&#x2F;HTerm (ChromeOS&#x27;s builtin terminal emulator) but ended up with some weird something else that I don&#x27;t understand nor want anyway.

Damn this is cool.<p>I seem to be having some issue registering using my github account though. I suspect this is a load issue?

I seriously thought the os library would be disabled<p>import os; for x, y, z in os.walk(&#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;): print x, y, z

It&#x27;s a cool project... I like it. I&#x27;d like it even more if it&#x27;s accessible from my cheap Android phone.

Is there a better linux terminal than bash?

Great! thanks.

Real SSH, all symlink.