Dec 21
Yesterday I wanted to connect to the Source Forge servers. With windows, I’ve always used Putty. So I started googling for a port of Putty for Ubuntu. Then I realized the fact!
hee hee hee. Every great person makes silly mistakes. So now that I’ve made one, I too can be listed in the “great persons” list 
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December 22nd, 2006 at 1:33 am
Good one
December 22nd, 2006 at 8:41 am
Actually Putty does exist in Ubuntu Edgy and in Debian:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/putty
http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/putty
I’m sure it’s available in Linux for some specific reasons; But I’m not sure what they are…
December 22nd, 2006 at 8:47 am
hmmm interesting !
So sad that now I can’t claim to be a great person
January 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Possibly the reason it exists is that through the terminal accessing ssh through a different port is not so easy. I have tried this, using the : extension, and in terminal it seems not to work. However, with putty, it does.
cheers
June 27th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
derek - You can use -p to specify a port.
ssh user@my-hostname -p 1234