Yes, putty from a windows machine should work OK. Personally, I'm using ssh from a terminal from another Linux machine.luisb wrote: It means that you must run Igel 3/4 from command line. So a program like putty will work without problems?
I do use X (graphical environment invoked via "xwin") sometimes when e.g. I need to set up networking (wireless in particular). But, once set up and tested for connections, the machine runs headless (no monitor, keyboard or mouse), and without starting X. For the normal usage (purely music playback), you don't need to waste system resources by invoking X. On my machines, it interferes with playback of 24/192 HD audio, which stutters if X is started (CPU usage: my machines have VIA 600 MHz CPU).
Remote control is via one of the web clients (neompc, web10mpc or phpmpreloaded). I also tried Client175, but gave it up: again, it wastes too much CPU resources.
Regards,
Denis