Re: PuTTY 0.54 rpms (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)

From: Aaron Matteson (fedora_at_cryptosystem.us)
Date: 02/21/04

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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:32:43 -0800

    Joe Klemmer became daring and sent these 0.9K bytes,
    > On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 00:25, Aaron Matteson wrote:
    >
    > > > >Awesome, thanks dude!!.. I had no idea there was a Linux version of
    > > > >PuTTY, I have been running the windows version under wine for ages..
    > > >
    > > > Out of curiosity, why would you ever want to run PuTTY under wine rather
    > > > than just using openssh or the other tools that PuTTY was written to
    > > > emulate?
    > >
    > > I was just going to ask the same question, seems pretty pointless to me.
    >
    > There are many people who have only used putty under WinXX and are very
    > familiar with how it works. Yes, using a real ssh utility is easier and
    > more flexible for those of us that started on it but having a Linux
    > version of putty is good for those who are migrating over.

    I see what you mean, thanks for the insight. 

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