I won't consider this an actual thing until you can telnet or ssh in.
Well, it won't be long till no one actually admins a Unix system through ssh anymore, they just connect to their cloud instances via a Web console using their Macs. (Linux? On the desktop? Like ew, man.) So I guess my greys are totally showing here.
From the title I thought I'd be able to telnet or ssh in. This is cool, but it's basically just a really awkward web page. I don't wish to denigrate the effort though. Surely some unixy commands wouldn't go amiss? At least 'ls'?
Ye this was a WE project that just looked so cool, and some of the libraries needed were already out there. Opensourcing & moving everything to telnet/ssh is probably the next step. For now it was just fun :P
That would be amazing! There's a real dearth of terminal-based amusement on the internet these days - last cool thing I remember was that telnet server that would play the first third of Star Wars in ASCII art. Being able to buy Unix swag entirely over SSH would definitely take the crown.
Good stuff though :) I see similar initial reactions to mine elsewhere in the thread, but let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good, eh?
Better workflow: