Microsoft Remote - SSH Extension Missing & FreeBSD Support Issue

Ideas Feature Requests
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I noticed that the only available Remote - SSH extension currently is the one by Anysphere (Cursor). I can’t seem to find the original Microsoft Remote - SSH extension, which I regularly used in VS Code.

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The main issue I’m facing is that the Cursor version of Remote - SSH does not support connecting to FreeBSD machines.
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On VS Code, I was able to connect using Microsoft’s extension by enabling the following setting:

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and RequestTTY force

This was essential for establishing a stable SSH session on FreeBSD.

Is the Microsoft version of Remote - SSH extension going to be supported on Cursor in the future? Or is there a workaround to enable FreeBSD support with the current Cursor Remote - SSH?

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Hi @Edmund1, thank you for this feature request. We are working on adding support for FreeBSD.

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I second the addition of freeBSD support as a welcome feature

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Hi @Edmund1 and @FinDevAI, we added support for FreeBSD in version 1.0.18 of the Remote SSH Extension. As noted in the README, you’ll need to install and configure the following:

sudo sysrc linux_enable="YES"
sudo service linux start
sudo pkg install bash wget linux_base-rl9
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Awesome, thank you for the quick update!!

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went to use cursor server on FreeBSD yesterday and forget it.

This is nuts to force users install a linux subsystem on a secure Unix system, a Unix O/S which is in fact a gold standard benchmark for Unix security.

Utter stupidity and laziness on the part a billion dollar organization to offer a Linux kludge solution for FreeBSD

Totally unacceptable