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

[Aaron Matteson]

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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