Hi!
On 5/10/07, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> PuTTY lets you set up all kinds of special options, tied to which host
> you are connecting to. So you can set special backgrounds, etc. It also
> remembers connection info, does port forwarding, allows terminal
> customization for each host, etc. Now perhaps it can all be done using
> other tools, but it's a pretty powerful GUI for all this, and provides a
> Unix build.
Oh for pete sake!
All of this can be done with ssh.
Yes.
RTFM. Why would Putty have port forwarding if it was not already supported
by every ssh client and server in the world?
Putty is a miserable attempt to replicate in windows what is already available
in every linux distro.
You can but down windows and other commercial products as much as you
like (unless it's completely unwarranted), but PuTTY (which is free
and not done by large organization) happens to be one of the best
quality software around. Has always been. It is definitely not a
"miserable attempt"! It's the SSH client that is used on windows
everywhere. For example, the people who use cygwin/X to get X to
windows, even those always use PuTTY for SSH as it just works.
I think this thread further proves it - PuTTY can do everything (and
maybe some more) for Windows that is included in unix/Linux distros
(from the point of view of SSH) _and_ do that so that you do not need
to RTFMs! And, that (the user friendliness), is already a good enough
reason for somebody to want it on SUSE.
Personally, I do not need it on Linux or OS X (although, I could see
some people wanting it there too..). But, please do not dismiss good
software without warrant.
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