-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Andersen 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. > 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. >
The PuTTY package does have useful elements in the Windows environment (an excellent command line file transfer/copying tool for a start). It is also not purely a Windows application, it has been ported to the Symbian OS and worked very well on UIQ and Nokia 9210, (I have yet to get it to work with the 80 series... there seems to problem with password transmission). While I do not see its value in Linux, I would not knock this excellent little tool on the grounds it does something M$ apparently failed to do in the windows environment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQtrjasN0sSnLmgIRAglsAJ9TCoJhjHsRbLwiI+dr6ck86On21wCdFesh 2ARZUmlYIWDI/kuNqa/tv1g= =+RC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
