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Alternatives to PuTTY linked in the thread so far: https://puttytray.goeswhere.com/ https://puttytray.goeswhere.com/ https://code.google.com/p/futty/ https://

by pathy 13y ago

Alternatives to PuTTY linked in the thread so far: https://puttytray.goeswhere.com/ https://puttytray.goeswhere.com/ https://code.google.com/p/futty/ https://code.google.com/p/futty/ https://code.google.com/p/superputty/ https://code.google.com/p/superputty/ http://kitty.9bis.net/ http://kitty.9bis.net/ http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/putty-extreme-makeover-using-putty-connection-manager/ http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/putty-extreme-makeover-u... Which one is the best? I currently use Putty Tray, for no real reason except that someone linked it to me awhile back and it is, imo, better than vanilla PuTTY. But how does it compare to the alternatives? Edit: added more!

cheald 13y ago
I've been using KiTTY for a year or so now, and it's great.
ollybee 13y ago
It's not a matter of which one is best, it's which one do I trust. I know source is available but these applications may not be subject to the kind of scrutiny and monitoring that better know packages might be. How long would it take before anyone noticed if the binaries for one of these was altered? How difficult would it be to carry out spear phishing attack against one of the authors allowing that to happen?
- VLM 13y ago
  That's an accurate summary of the threat looking back in time. Looking forward in time, when a bug is found, which has a larger mass of humanity working to fix it, the intensely scrutinized original, or a UI theme mod that about ten people use? This is the kind of thing that always scares me away from little two person linux distros forked off a "real" distro. Imagine in six months there's yet another mistake in Debian's SSL libs much like happened before. Or insert your own analogy. Who's more likely to quickly push patches out, the thousands in the Debian keyring pushing the hundreds who are active pushing the tens who are into security pushing the (small number) in the FTPmaster team to push the patched packages out as fast as 100 wpm keyboards humanly allow, or the two guys who made Zombie-nix which is merely a fork of Debian with everything they don't personally like removed, a scarey animated gif zombie themed boot screen, and some "marketing", who can't be reached because they're out camping, drinking, and shining deer until next month? (not that there's anything wrong with camping and drinking, although deer shining I suppose depends on your state/local laws)
  - jessaustin 13y ago
    ...deer shining I suppose depends on your state/local laws Hey, spotlighting is a traditional hunting technique of my people!
- lloeki 13y ago
  Then separate concerns: use MinTTY and OpenSSH. The former is much easier to review since it's just a terminal emulator, and I don't need to say anything about the latter.
asnyder 13y ago
I really like MobaXTerm (http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/), has tabs and much much more.

by pathy 13y ago

cheald 13y ago

I've been using KiTTY for a year or so now, and it's great.

ollybee 13y ago

It's not a matter of which one is best, it's which one do I trust. I know source is available but these applications may not be subject to the kind of scrutiny and monitoring that better know packages might be. How long would it take before anyone noticed if the binaries for one of these was altered? How difficult would it be to carry out spear phishing attack against one of the authors allowing that to happen?

VLM 13y ago
That's an accurate summary of the threat looking back in time. Looking forward in time, when a bug is found, which has a larger mass of humanity working to fix it, the intensely scrutinized original, or a UI theme mod that about ten people use? This is the kind of thing that always scares me away from little two person linux distros forked off a "real" distro. Imagine in six months there's yet another mistake in Debian's SSL libs much like happened before. Or insert your own analogy. Who's more likely to quickly push patches out, the thousands in the Debian keyring pushing the hundreds who are active pushing the tens who are into security pushing the (small number) in the FTPmaster team to push the patched packages out as fast as 100 wpm keyboards humanly allow, or the two guys who made Zombie-nix which is merely a fork of Debian with everything they don't personally like removed, a scarey animated gif zombie themed boot screen, and some "marketing", who can't be reached because they're out camping, drinking, and shining deer until next month? (not that there's anything wrong with camping and drinking, although deer shining I suppose depends on your state/local laws)
- jessaustin 13y ago
  ...deer shining I suppose depends on your state/local laws Hey, spotlighting is a traditional hunting technique of my people!
lloeki 13y ago
Then separate concerns: use MinTTY and OpenSSH. The former is much easier to review since it's just a terminal emulator, and I don't need to say anything about the latter.

asnyder 13y ago

I really like MobaXTerm (http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/), has tabs and much much more.