Cygwin (was Re: [TriLUG] a good ssh client for win2k)

John Turner jdturner at nc.rr.com
Tue Feb 19 09:39:55 EST 2002


Cygwin is a must have for every Linux user forced to use
a Windows machine. I was even able to get sshd working
and we were able to get a remote bash shell on our NT/Win2K
servers.

John

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:28:44AM -0500, Chris Merrill wrote:
> Benjamin Reed wrote:
> 
> > Yup... PuTTY makes Windows usable... by letting you SSH to a real
> > OS.  <g>
> 
> 
> I'm becoming fond of Cygwin.  But it's considerably more than
> an SSH/Telnet client.  An entire linux shell (bash?) - now that
> I've installed enough extensions (like CVS) I can run our
> Linux build process on my W2k box.  Of course, the best part
> is having a decent console for those tasks best accomplished
> with keyboard.
> 
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