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PuTTY

Open Source by Simon Tatham |
Windows, Linux

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms. A simple, lightweight client for connecting to a Linux shell from your Windows machine!

Network & Admin, OS & Utilities ssh, terminal, console, terminal-emulator, telnet
+2 more ssh-client, telnet-client
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KiTTY

Open Source by cyd |
Windows

What is KiTTY ? KiTTY is a fork from version 0.62 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world. KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft Windows platform. For more information about the original...

Network & Admin, OS & Utilities ssh, console, telnet
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Terminator

Open Source by Chris Jones |
Linux

Terminator, multiple terminals in one window. The goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals. It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc. in that the...

OS & Utilities terminal, terminal-client, multiple-terminals
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SSH Proxy

Open Source by Yang Yubo |
Mac

SSH Proxy can help you effortlessly turn any remote SSH server into a SOCKS v5 proxy, intuitive and easy to use. SSH Proxy is able to remember the SSH login password and save it to OS X's keychain....

Security & Privacy firewall, proxy, ssh, development-tool, tunnel, socks
+2 more gfw, socks5
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Remote Desktop Manager

Freemium by Devolutions Inc. |
Windows

Remote Desktop Manager lets you centralize all your remote connections, passwords and credentials into a unique platform that people love to work with. Connect any session types, such as: RDP, SSH, Web,...

File Management, Network & Admin, Security & Privacy vpn, remote-desktop, ftp-client, tabbed-interface
+9 more vnc, telnet, rdp, file-browser, connection-manager, powershell, ssh-manager, hyper-v, credentials
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MobaXterm

Freemium by Mobatek |
Windows

MobaXterm (formerly known as MobaXVT) is an enhanced terminal with an X server and a set of Unix commands (GNU/Cygwin) packaged in a single portable exe file. Formerly known as MobaXVT, MobaXterm now includes...

OS & Utilities portable Program without installation that you can start from an USB stick, ssh, unix, tabbed-interface
+5 more terminal-emulator, putty, xterm, x-server, cygwin
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PuTTY Tray

Open Source by Chris West & Toby Simmons |
Windows

PuTTY Tray is an improved version of PuTTY. It features some cosmetic changes, and a number of addons to make it more useful and much more fun to use. Originally compiled by Barry Haanstra, now maintained...

Network & Admin portable, ssh, telnet, system-tray, putty
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SSH Terminal Emulator

Commercial by devFluid |
Windows Metro

SSH Terminal Emulator by devFluid connects to linux, unix, and other SSH capable devices directly through an SSH2 connection.

Network & Admin, OS & Utilities ssh, terminal-emulator, ssh-client
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mintty

Open Source by Andy Koppe |
Windows

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team. It can be downloaded from the main site or it can be installed through Cygwins setup.exe program,...

OS & Utilities terminal, console, terminal-emulator, cygwin
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Superputty

Open Source by Paul Hendryx |
Windows

SuperPutty is a Windows GUI Application that allows the PuTTY SSH Client to be opened in Tabs. Additionally there is support for SCP to transfer files. SuperPutty is written in C# and runs on any Windows...

ssh, net, putty, c-sharp, scp
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FireSSH

Open Source by Mime Cuvalo |
Mac, Windows, Linux

FireSSH is a free, cross-platform SSH terminal client for Mozilla Firefox. Written entirely in Javascript!

Network & Admin plugin / add-on Firefox 4.0+ only, ssh, ssh-client, browser-based
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Poderosa

This application has been discontinued. More info: Last version, 4.1.0, was released in 2006, but it's still downloadable.
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PAC Manager

Open Source |
Linux

PAC is a Perl/GTK Gnome replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc... It provides a GUI to configure SSH/Telnet connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc. You like...

Development, Network & Admin, Security & Privacy development, community, ssh, source-code
+5 more password-management, perl, gtk, telnet, cluster
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SecureCRT

Commercial by http://www.vandyke.com |
Windows

SecureCRT combines rock-solid terminal emulation with the strong encryption, data integrity, and authentication options of the Secure Shell protocol. SecureCRT provides secure remote access, file transfer, and...

Network & Admin ssh, terminal, telnet
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MyEnTunnel

Free |
Windows

MyEnTunnel is a simple system tray application (or NT service) that establishes and maintains TCP SSH tunnels. It does this by launching Plink (PuTTY Link) in the background and then monitors the process. If...

portable Does not have to be installed. Simply unzip to any location., tunnel, background-ssh-tunnel-daemon
+1 more maintains-tcp-ssh-tunnels
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TTY Plus

Free by ttyplus |
Windows

Home of the best multi-tabbed PuTTY wrapper - MTPuTTY.

Network & Admin, OS & Utilities ssh, sftp, terminal, terminal-emulator, telnet
+4 more ssh-client, putty, scp, wrapper
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AnyConnect

Free by http://neteject.com |
Windows

AnyConnect is a a free FTP/FTPS/SSH/Telnet/Terminal client software. AnyConnect supports multiple connections at once in a mixed mode where you can both FTP and make a terminal connection at the same time....

Network & Admin ftp, ssh, sftp, terminal, telnet, ftps
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Secure Shell

Free by Google |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies. Secure Shell is...

Network & Admin plugin / add-on Google Chrome Extension, ssh, terminal, ssh-client
+1 more native-client
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ExtraPuTTY

Open Source by Sebastien Blavier |
Windows

ExtraPuTTY is a fork from 0.60 version of PuTTY and has all the features from the original while adding new ones as described below: API for win32 applications to send,receive data on Telnet, SSH,...

Network & Admin security, ssh, telnet, raw, putty, rlogin, labview
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PCMan

Open Source |
Windows

PCMan is an open source software for BBS viewing.

bbs