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Some past threads:

Blink Mobile Shell for iOS (Mosh Based) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370348 - Nov 2018 (1 comment)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429203 - Sept 2016 (49 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572146 - April 2016 (148 comments)

Mosh – a robust, responsive replacement for SSH - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8928506 - Jan 2015 (45 comments)

Ask HN: Anyone using Mosh? Seems development has stalled since January - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8556680 - Nov 2014 (1 comment)

Mosh: A replacement for SSH - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252093 - Sept 2014 (122 comments)

Mosh (mobile shell) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6321474 - Sept 2013 (6 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016745 - Jan 2013 (89 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4588239 - Sept 2012 (1 comment)

Mosh: SSH for 2012 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819382 - April 2012 (193 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3814589 - April 2012 (2 comments)



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Mosh: The Mobile Shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150287 - Aug 2021 (153 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429203 - Sept 2016 (49 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572146 - April 2016 (147 comments)

Mosh – a robust, responsive replacement for SSH - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8928506 - Jan 2015 (45 comments)

Mosh: A replacement for SSH - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252093 - Sept 2014 (122 comments)

Mosh (mobile shell) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6321474 - Sept 2013 (6 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016745 - Jan 2013 (89 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4588239 - Sept 2012 (1 comment)

Mosh: SSH for 2012 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819382 - April 2012 (193 comments)


Looks like Blink. It’s pretty awesome. The layout is relatively simple for using special keys and it works great with a keyboard on larger iOS screens. The UI is also almost entirely text based for workflows once you have servers setup. That was always the most annoying thing about using Prompt and other SSH clients on iPad. Pecking around on the screen to get to a shell before you can start typing away. Blink supports Mosh as well.

Blink is by far the best ssh/mosh app I have found. mosh is a gamechanger if you use mobile data and the interface of the app is the best implementation of a shell I came across so far. If you haven't tried it yet it's worth looking at. Steep price tag but justified by how much you use it.

What's mosh?

Edit: Managed to find the right string of words to google: mosh = Mobile Shell


mosh isn't an alternative shell, it's sort of like "rsh" or "ssh" except designed for mobile... and using SSH for authentication and session setup.

Plug for mosh, the mobile shell. If you can ssh, you can probably mosh. https://mosh.org/

Blink is a great and open source SSH/Mosh client for iPad.

https://blink.sh/


What bugs? Mosh isn’t a proof of concept. It’s a stable project.

https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh


mosh? It's a replacement for interactive ssh.

Nice, thanks for sharing. Since you mentioned SSH - make sure you use MOSH. If using an iPad https://blink.sh/ is an absolute gem.

Somewhat relevant: I think Mosh solves a few problems that SSH lacks. This article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252093 made it on Hacker News a bit ago. The video is wort the watch imo.

On mosh's note. It's great experience for slow connection. Totally agree. There is new ios client recently released client with mosh support build-in [1]. Happy user

[1] http://www.blink.sh/


Mosh has a lot of issues. Most notably it lacks flow control [1] and does not handle packet loss or truncation [2].

Very sad, because the idea behind Mosh is great.

1: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/957

2: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/950


The idea behind Mosh is almost perfect. Unfortunately, it's just a proof-of-concept project that has not been maintained for years. Although it has met my daily needs, I'm still looking for a better alternative because of some known bugs.

I had hoped on draft-bider-ssh-quic [1], but unfortunately it was marked as "no longer active".

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bider-ssh-quic/


Panic has mentioned that they will fully implement Mosh into their Prompt iOS client, it's just not high priority at the moment.

http://twitter.com/panic/status/281208183094145024


Mosh is your friend when mobile SSH is an essential requirement: https://mosh.org

Love mosh, back when the connection was bad I had it aliased to ssh. Somewhat relevant: if you actually a need to take your shell mobile, check out my tmux plugin that allows you to quickly transfer your tmux session to your phone without any app, using websockets and a QR code: https://github.com/bjesus/muxile

Mosh is great, but it does not support port forwarding. For some people, including myself, this is a deal breaker. It has been an open issue/feature request since 2012[1] and even has a ~600 USD bounty on it[2].

[1] - https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337

[2] - https://www.bountysource.com/issues/4471419-ssh-port-forward...


Mosh is nice, but "A replacement for SSH" is quite stretching it, considering it does use ssh to setup its own connection and so it depends on SSH.

It also doesn't provide most of SSH functionality, and it doesn't support IPv6 yet, whereas SSH does.

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