is an excellent Telnet and SSH client for Windows and Unix. I have used it for all my IT Career to access my Home and Work Linux boxes.
I now exclusively use Linux at home, but found the GTK1.2 PuTTY client to be a bit aged. However, while not listed as a download on the main website there are links to the GTK2 version which has been ported.
Update: The Putty GTK2 client is now part of the main trunk for
development. I have updated the svn paths below to reflect this.
To compile your own copy:
mkdir ~/putty
cd ~/putty
svn co svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty # the gtk2 build is now merged into the trunk of putty. it used to be putty-gtk2
./mkfiles.pl # you need to run this to generate the Makefile.gtk used below
cd putty/unix
make -f Makefile.gtk
The result should be plink, pscp, psftp, pterm, putty, puttygen and puttytel binaries in the unix directory.
You can then get root and run make -f Makefile.gtk install to move the binaries to /usr/local/bin.
Obviously you must have the gcc tool chain and the Gtk2 development libraries installed. Mine compiled first go so I’m not sure of what the exact dependencies are required to compile it. To find out run make -f Makefile.gtk and read the error messages for clues on what may be missing.
