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duskwuffyesterday at 5:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

"X11SSH" is a Supermicro motherboard [1] with a (fairly common) Aspeed BMC implementing IPMI. (It has nothing to do with X11 or SSH - the name is an unfortunate coincidence.) The UART that is being accessed here is a debug UART for the BMC, which also runs Linux.

[1]: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/x11ssh-f


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amy214today at 10:12 AM

Yo dawg, I put linux on your linux so you can X11/SSH while you X11SSH

johngyesterday at 6:06 PM

Great explanation.