[olug] Remote Droid

Benjamin Watson bwatson1979 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 23:57:27 UTC 2010


Search for "Remote VNC" in the Marketplace app on your Droid phone.
There is a free and pay version (I opted for the free one).  With my
Droid connected to my AP at home, I can easily remote into all of my
Linux boxes that have vnc-server up and running.  Works great.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Aaron Keck <keckbug at gmail.com> wrote:
> From my limited experience with MY wife's phone:
>
> SSH is fairly easy using the ConnectBot app:
> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/07/connect-bot-ssh-client-for-android-phone/
> I've played with various graphical apps with various levels of success, RDP
> and VNC applications exist, although some cost around $10.  It's not great,
> due to small screen size and the on-screen keyboard for my HTC Hero, but it
> was fu
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:17 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I've heard many people claim that Android and Chrome shouldn't be
>> considered Linux, but I don't see why not. Ultimately it still runs on
>> a Linux kernel. We still consider embedded Linux as Linux.
>>
>> I really wanted an Android phone to play with, but when I was in the
>> market, T-Mobile was the only providered offering an Android phone,
>> and T-Mobile doesn't really haver coverage in Omaha. Now that Verizon
>> has an Android phone, I'm considering moving over to them next time
>> I'm out of contract, but that is over a year away.
>>
>> -- T. J.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:
>> > On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:47 AM, David L Klinkebiel wrote:
>> >> Now that your wife has a DROID, I was wondering what application would
>> work to either control my office computer from my phone so I can run
>> routines on klab or access klab directly from phone.
>> >
>> > No idea, sorry. My wife has only let me play with her phone for a total
>> of 4 minutes so far.  :)
>> >
>> > OLUG talks about the droid quite a bit I think. You could join their
>> mailing list and ask, or search their mailing list archive.
>> >
>> >   http://www.olug.org/
>> >
>> > Err... correction. Looks like they're NOT chatting about Droid. Or Google
>> search of the archive is fail? Weird... I thought Droid was Linux so OLUG
>> would be all over it...?
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Flists.olug.org%2Fpipermail%2Folug%2F+droid
>> >
>> > j
>> >
>> >
>> >
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