I have been looking on the old Interweb for a suitable replacement to PuTTY. Whilst PuTTY is good, and does all that it is meant to, I do think it needs to catch up cosmetically. I have to open connections to many servers simultaneously and was hoping for something that would give me tabbed based SSH sessions rather than lot of separate windows of PuTTY, each with a connection to a different server. I also have some key mapping issues with some applications that I can't seem to handle using PuTTY.

Oh, yeh, and I don't want to pay for it, so was looking for some Freeware (incl commercial use), or some Open Source stuff ;)

Any ideas ??

Try here, not really sure what PuTTY is though.

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We use Outside View at work, but tbh, it sucks major. Rather expensive too.

You could use cygwin and an Xserver to use real SSH under a tabbed gnomeTerminal :P

SecureCRT - The Usable, Flexible SSH Client

Is pretty good but not free.

Personally if you can code you could write a frame that will open multiple putty windows. I did once write an ssh client in java that used JTabbed panes, but i have no idea where i put the source code.

Try here, not really sure what PuTTY is though.

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It's a free Secure Shell client with various other bits that go with it such as key agents, scp file transfers, etc. Does the job, just (as mentioned) a bit behind the times cosmetically which makes it impracticable for multiple simultaneous sessions. It tends to get a bit confusing and crowded down on the old start bar.

I prefer the separate window approach - makes cutting and pasting much easier. Never really been a fan of the tab approach.

Same here - I hate tabbed browsing with a passion, as you end up with alt-tab to browser followed by tabbing on the browser, as opposed to just dropping alt-tab to get to the one you want.

It's good sometimes, but generally I dislike it.

Still, it's a UI design, and it kinda works I suppose LOL

PuTTY? Hmmm.. Just when I thought this was a D.I.Y question :(

It's a free Secure Shell client with various other bits that go with it such as key agents, scp file transfers, etc. Does the job, just (as mentioned) a bit behind the times cosmetically which makes it impracticable for multiple simultaneous sessions. It tends to get a bit confusing and crowded down on the old start bar.

also does telnet, 5250 emulation - used it a few times when IBM Client Access was playing up... good thing is you can get a portable apps version to run from your memory pen.

Thanks for all the replies. I didn't really come across anything that I hadn't already found, but cheers anyway

OpenSSH? I still use PuTTY myself, haven't tried anything that is better for the money

Dave.

I recently went on the hunt for PuTTY for Mac OS X, but found that I can do everything I need from the Terminal. Ahh, that's more like it