Cyberduck/WinSCP/(something for Linux) for 'hack users

[fu]

Idea! So, one of the barriers to starting out with dreamhacks is that initial stage of needing to learn how to SSH into the 'hack, and then figuring out how to navigate the filesystem/edit files with a nongraphical text editor, plus grappling with latency for each keystroke if you have a slow connection.

rb and I got to talking and she suggested using Cyberduck, which is a Mac-specific FTP/SCP client which lets you ssh into the remote system with a graphical user interface, and edit the files locally with any client you want (hopefully one you're familiar with!). When you save, it sends the file to the remote server, so you only suffer from latency at that step. due@IRC suggests WinSCP for Windows. I'm not familiar with what you can use on Linux, but I'm pretty sure there's something!

Any thoughts? Any suggestions for alternative clients, or a client for Linux? (Oooh maybe a good thing to eventually direct into the wiki)

We'd still need to teach how to SSH in and use the commandline in order to generate the patchfile, but that might be less intimidating, if we can put it off until after they've done code and seen the effect without all these setup steps getting in the way.