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Platforms and Downloads

Local Client Platforms

Supported local client platforms:

  • Linux
  • macOS
  • FreeBSD, NetBSD, and illumos where release artifacts are published
  • Windows x86_64

The client requires a working system ssh binary.

On Windows, use Windows Terminal or another console that supports Windows virtual terminal input. This lets special keys such as arrows, Home/End, and other line-editing keys reach the remote shell as normal terminal escape sequences.

Remote Server Platforms

Supported remote server platforms:

  • Linux
  • macOS
  • FreeBSD
  • OpenBSD when installed from Cargo or a distro package
  • NetBSD
  • illumos
  • Other Unix-like systems where ssh-obi-server can be built from source and installed with Cargo or a distro package.

The server component is not supported on Windows.

systemd-based Linux distributions are supported, but systemd is not required. No system-wide service install is required. On Linux systems with systemd and a user bus, new PTY children are placed into a transient user scope on a best-effort basis; non-systemd Linux systems continue without that step.

Downloads

Release files are served from https://obi.menhera.org/.

The tarball list below is the prebuilt artifact set. Some Unix-like platforms, such as OpenBSD, are intentionally supported through a locally installed ssh-obi-server rather than a prebuilt tarball. Install with Cargo or a distro package, then connect normally; the bootstrap will use a compatible server from ~/.cargo/bin/ssh-obi-server or from PATH.

OpenBSD has no prebuilt binaries. On OpenBSD, install a Rust toolchain and run:

cargo install --features server-bin ssh-obi

Server-capable tarballs:

  • release-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
  • release-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
  • release-riscv64gc-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
  • release-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
  • release-s390x-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
  • release-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
  • release-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
  • release-x86_64-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz
  • release-x86_64-unknown-netbsd.tar.gz
  • release-x86_64-unknown-illumos.tar.gz

Client-only tarballs:

  • release-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz

Server-capable tarballs contain ssh-obi and ssh-obi-server. Windows client-only tarballs contain ssh-obi.exe.

Out Of Scope

  • Android.
  • Windows remote servers.
  • Terminal pane/window management.
  • UDP transport.
  • Screen-state replication.