Ask HN: Alternative for putty?

Posted by mablae on Sunday June 21, 2015 @01:41AM
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Hi folks,

Some times you can not run your workstation on linux for different reasons.

I am more and more unhappy with "putty" I currently use.

Why isn't there a actively maintained SSH Terminal Client for Windows?

Please list SSH Terminal Client for Windows you like!

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative for putty? by opless on Sunday June 21, 2015 @04:51AM (#9752715)

If you find cygwin annoying and/or slow, try mingw.

If you grab the official git windows client you get a mini-install with openssh which works fine :)

I use putty myself, and if I'm only allowed to use a web browser, I'll just log into chrome and use the ssh client chrome extension (which seems to be still in beta a year later)

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative for putty? by i0nutzb on Sunday June 21, 2015 @02:03AM (#9752387)

Cygwin.

http://www.openssh.com/windows.html

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative for putty? by mattbillenstein on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:37AM (#9752575)

Cygwin is essential if you spend any significant amount of time using a Windoze box...

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative for putty? by a3n on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:37AM (#9753796)

I vote with the others: cygwin, and install openssh in that.

You have the added benefit of having a bash command line (or zsh or whatever) to use as you like.

But for your question, cygwin plus openssh is an excellent solution. Try it.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative for putty? by cdvonstinkpot on Sunday June 21, 2015 @01:26PM (#9754177)

SmartFTP- has tabbed ssh terminals, dual-pane local/sftp, bookmarks.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative for putty? by leonatan on Sunday June 21, 2015 @04:50AM (#9752714)

SecureCRT is very good.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative for putty? by fithisux on Sunday June 21, 2015 @05:37AM (#9752777)

Plenty

Poderosa, Terraterm

among others

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