Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clayton wrote:
>> Is there an openSUSE 10.2 package source for the PuTTY package?
>>
>> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
> 
> I'm curious why you would need PuTTY for SUSE.  OpenSSH does the exact
> same thing (from your standard Terminal).

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.
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