![]() PuTTY has, apart from Simon Tatham, a small but very select group of developers: ![]() ![]() While money is important, we human beings are even more important, since we bear symbols and we give meaning to this Universe. In this article I talk about the most recent version 0.74, paying my tribute. With such incentives it is clear that version 0.71 was born specifically by the initiative of all of Europe, considering PuTTY a common good. To date, the European Commission has committed € 320,000 in reward payments (up to € 10,000 for revealing a software bug) in this project, and in the case of PuTTY (January to July 2019) they made 34 reports that were rewarded with an average of 285 euros each (I estimate more than twenty thousand euros in total, the highest prize was 6,772.08 euros). But that, ladies and gentlemen, that is another story.Įuropean Union Free and Open Source Software Auditing project included PuTTY, in 2019, in the rewards program for hunting software bugs (bug bounty), which I consider shows its importance for computing. Of course, PuTTY is not the only one – nor will it be the last – that you can use for teletasks: I recognize that Cmder is also a very useful program that includes more options for Windows®: cmd, Powershell® and SSH. Let us also take into account that TTY is the abbreviation of TeleTYpewriter, the first devices based on a typewriter but electrically connected for sending and receiving written messages by telegraph (Télétype® or teletype). PuTTY would then be, I guess, an abbreviation for put TTY. In both worlds, getty has the function of detecting a connection, requesting user credentials, and authenticating them. I guess here the name PuTTY is the complement of getty (short for get TTY) a program written in Unix by Wietse Zweitze Venema (co-author of the popular Postfix email server) and ported to GNU/Linux. Here is where PuTTY, a free tool written in C language, comes into play. For administration and/or monitoring tasks just getting your hands on a handful of applications is more than enough. The Windows® platform still retains a powerful slice on desktop systems (mostly for its use in video games). Leaving aside the arrival of 5G technology and new mobile operating systems, Android® has no major problems downloading multiple applications, to connect our beloved and precious servers with GNU/Linux (administration, monitoring). Oh, I almost forgot, Android® is a somewhat weird GNU/Linux®, because manufacturers and phone operators do not let us use our “own” computers as root users. By 2012, Pandora FMS team, with a keen eye, noticed the irruption of Android® in computing and we surely know that today the number of mobile phones with this operating system far exceeds the rest of devices. Since the birth of GNU/Linux® its natural niche has been the server sector, especially web servers. The surprising thing is that even today we continue to use this work scheme, and even more so in terms of monitoring. The command line or terminal window was the one we used for almost everything and when operating systems with a graphical interface arrived, this resource was relegated to communicating network computers, given its low cost in terms of data transmission and its powerful use (for example, with a single command you may shut down or restart a computer, and many other things). Each program managed the best it could, making calls directly to the hardware, which was expensive and primal and in turn did not allow for more powerful operating systems. ![]() Age aside, we didn’t even have a graphical environment on our computers, as we know them today. Linus Torvalds had not even begun to study at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Before GNU/Linux®įor those of you who visit us for the first time (welcome all) I will tell you that, when I started hitting the keyboard keys, Mr. What if it deserves its own article? Read and judge for yourselves. In this blog, we have been reviewing this useful program for several years, and even the great Pandora FMS team has confirmed it just now in 2020, in the list of network commands for Microsoft Windows® and GNU/Linux®. It was developed in 1997!, by Simon Tatham, a British programmer. PuTTY is a free program (MIT license) for x86 and AMD 64 architectures (now in experimental stages for ARM). What is PuTTY and some useful tips to use it easily
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