Terminal Emulators Reviewed

An anonymous reader writes "Linux Weekly News has a now free review of terminal emulators. It might be old but still remains an important tool to many of the regulars here." If you're checking that out, it's also worth checking out Joe Barr's CLI series on Linux.com (also owned by OSDN)

Comments

the only one?

[Jareeedo]

One day, dual-booting will be considered "old-school." I, and my 12 partitions, live for that day.

Re:I Love Terminal Emulators

[homer_ca]

Huh? I think you mean DOS emulator. Terminal emulators are for things like DEC VT220 emulation.

Where's PuTTY?

[KlomDark]

I have been picky as hell over the years when it comes to terminal emulators. As far as windows-based emulators, PuTTY is by far the best in my my opinion. Supports telnet, SSH, Rlogin and all kinds of other things linux Linux arrow key support.

For when you have to connect to Linux from a Windows box, it's the way to go. (Although the default font [Courier New] option is horrible for a console emulator, I always change it to Terminal.)

SecureCRT from vandyke.com is my fav.

[qualico]

I prefer SecureCRT for my emulation.
http://www.vandyke.com/products/index. html

Excellent product with scripting, keymapping, tons of choice emulation and transfer protocols.

Otherwise, a Wyse60 was my weapon of choice in the good ol days.

Re:Real nerds don't use terminal emulators

[daeley]

my wife has, on more than one occasion, insisted that I ditch my vt220, but I can't bring myself to just chuck the thing... too many memories

You really shouldn't talk about your wife that way. ;)

Re:Love CLI

[The Angry Mick]

You know, this reminded me of something that's been tickling the back of my mind for some time now.

At the beginning of my tech career, just about everything was done through the commend line, and of course, I liked it and got somewhat good at it. However, once GUIs arrived, I dutifully switched over like a happy wage slave and gradually learned to forget about some of the more obscure CLI commands as they mostly had a GUI counterpart that at least handled the basic functions.

In the past few years, though, I've since switched a number of servers from NT to either BSD or Linux, and, as there was no need for X-Windows on any of them, I left the GUI off and managed solely from the CLI. The funny thing is, now that I've more or less drifted back into strictly CLI mode, GUI based software drives me absolutely nuts! Now whenever I need to crank out short documents or mail messages, I'm twice as likely to fire up "vi" or even Windows notepad as opposed to something like Word or WordPerfect. It's almost as if my mind has gotten so tired of the extra features found in GUI based software that its beginning to revolt, favoring the old ways over the new.