Published at November 30, 2006
in Mobile.
I recently got my hands on the HTC TyTN (Cingular 8525). This device is the latest broadband Pocket PC Phone to hit the U.S. all the way from Taiwan!
The HTC Cingular 8525 has all the bells and whistles that you want in a mobile phone and then some. For instance it runs Windows Mobile 5 and has your typical productivity apps like Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Windows Media Player, etc. It’s also packed with WiFi, Bluetooth & a 2 megapixel camera. I also added a 1GB micro SD storage card so I can download more fun apps to this little device.
I am starting to like this whole mobile computing age. Next, I would like to try to connect to my Linux server and be able to manipulate my files remotely, but 1st, I gotta get my FTP server configured.
I decided to use openSUSE to operate my server; This Linux distribution seems to have all the bells and whistles that I was looking for in a server. Check out Wikipedia for a good working definition of a Linux distribution, and a great comparison chart.
OpenSUSE 10.1 is the latest stable community release from Novell. It is important to note here that Novell also develops and maintains SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server which is not free.
Here is a snapshot of the KDE desktop on openSUSE. It is very colorful with lots of 3D icons. You can also change the settings quite easily to use transparency. Very slick!
As most people know, Linux systems use the command line. I will admit that this is the part that kept me away from using Linux in the first place, but it is something that cannot be ignored for long.
The command line is very powerful, for example you can access your Linux system from any computer using a secure shell client (SSH).
In this example, I used PuTTY (a free secure shell client) on Windows Vista and was able to access the Desktop on my Linux system.
Aside from being able to gaze at your desktop remotely, you can view, move and edit files as well. How cool is that!
I am sure the command line offers a lot more functionality, but so far, I am impressed with the reliability factor.
After countless hours of reading online documentation and lurking in geeky discussion forums, I am publishing my first blog post.
This “hello world” post is the result of successfully combining various open source technologies.
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