I tested with konsole, sadly it does not support opening the split panes with predefined commands from the CLI.

Yeah sure, feel free to do so

You can expand each entry at https://xpipe.io/pricing to see the details. For enterprise operating systems, this includes stuff like RHEL, Windows Enterprise, Amazon Linux, etc. So pricey operating systems that you usually only run in businesses. The pricing page also includes details on cases where this is not the case, e.g. if you’re trying to replicate production systems in your homelab and are running RHEL in there as well for example. If that is the case, I can upgrade your license for free if you send me an email.

I edited the post and added the link to pricing page to the post to make that more clear.

Nope, an application like this can’t work as a flatpak as the sandbox prevents almost all shell functionality and makes the application unusable. Yes, the AppImages are basically the best solution for immutable operating systems.

I think in the end you still have to exercise some trust. There are things like audits, but these are costly and not an option in the current stage. Maybe in the future. Best I can do is to provide transparency by open-sourcing large parts of the codebase and providing detailed security information like https://docs.xpipe.io/reference/security.

As someone who sometimes sells to the german public sector, it is true that they would prefer a good open source solution if it was available. But me being a german vendor makes up for it, as they still prefer this a lot more over any US-based vendors.

In general about the key handling, XPipe doesn’t read any kind of keys itself, it only forwards them to the local OpenSSH client. It is essentially a wrapper around in existing ssh client, and doesn’t implement anything related to key handling itself.

I think if you have a specialized tools with openstack, XPipe probably can’t compete with that in that area. But it can make your life easier in a lot of other areas and common tasks when it comes to accessing many servers.

About the FOSS requirement, I know that this is a dealbreaker for some. That is a tradeoff when going the commercial route