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Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by jgillich »

Matt3o12_ wrote: post #30
jgillich wrote: post #2

Termbox is somewhat similar to the recently announced dply.co, but I think our approach is much better for the following reasons: * The interface is super streamlined. Open the page, confirm captcha, click launch - boom, you got a terminal. The planned SSH support will be similar to that - no web page, just do ssh root@ubuntu.termbox.io and you get logged in to a Ubuntu box. * We use VM based containers (hypercontain…

What is the difference begeeen docker, a traditional VM and hypercontainer? And what are the trade off of hypercontainer?

There's a comparison table here: https://hypercontainer.io/why-hyper.html

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by webtechgal »

jgillich wrote: post #15
mijoharas wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After I got past the "over capacity" error I got to a screen like the above, but without the terminal. Javascript error: index.js:2371 Uncaught TypeError: this.base.append is not a function

Interesting, what browser and OS are you using?

CentOS 6.7 and FireFox 45.5.0 here. I do get to the terminal screen, but just the header, footer and a large white block in between. No terminal, no prompt, no cursor. Tried typing some random commands, but no joy.

In the footer, shows:

Status Connected

Time remaining 53 minutes, 52 seconds

etc.

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by jgillich »

koolba wrote: post #27
stonewhite wrote: post #25

Considering the captcha it actually takes 3 clicks to launch

> Considering the captcha it actually takes 3 clicks to launch More like ten. Six for the captcha choices, one to submit the captcha, one to pick the server type, one to submit and get a " Server capacity reached, please try again later ", and finally one to close the browser tab.

I'm not going to rent a $500 server just to handle the HN traffic spike, sorry. Capacity will be expanded over time, but only after the service pays for itself (either through ads or paid features).

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by JayOtter »

jswrenn wrote: post #19

FYI: This has a name clash with a fairly popular TUI library: https://github.com/nsf/termbox

Which is a really good, actively maintained library. Shameless plug for the game engine I wrote using it: https://github.com/JoelOtter/termloop

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by jgillich »

scbrg wrote: post #20
jgillich wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, what browser and OS are you using?

Same here. Chromium: "Version 53.0.2785.143 built on Debian stretch/sid, running on Debian stretch/sid (64-bit)"

That's odd, probably a bug in preact but I can't reproduce it. I've deployed a fix nonetheless.

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by bluesign »

jgillich wrote: post #2

Termbox is somewhat similar to the recently announced dply.co, but I think our approach is much better for the following reasons: * The interface is super streamlined. Open the page, confirm captcha, click launch - boom, you got a terminal. The planned SSH support will be similar to that - no web page, just do ssh root@ubuntu.termbox.io and you get logged in to a Ubuntu box. * We use VM based containers (hypercontain…

How will you prevent abuse with SSH method?

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by nkkollaw »

jgillich wrote: post #2

Termbox is somewhat similar to the recently announced dply.co, but I think our approach is much better for the following reasons: * The interface is super streamlined. Open the page, confirm captcha, click launch - boom, you got a terminal. The planned SSH support will be similar to that - no web page, just do ssh root@ubuntu.termbox.io and you get logged in to a Ubuntu box. * We use VM based containers (hypercontain…

Why do you publicize it as 2 clicks?

It's 1 click. Ubuntu is selected by default. Captcha doesn't count as click.

I'd market it as Terminal in 1 click.

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