Ask HN: Alternative for putty?

If you find cygwin annoying and/or slow, try mingw.

If you grab the official git windows client you get a mini-install with openssh which works fine :)

I use putty myself, and if I'm only allowed to use a web browser, I'll just log into chrome and use the ssh client chrome extension (which seems to be still in beta a year later)

Cygwin.

http://www.openssh.com/windows.html

Cygwin is essential if you spend any significant amount of time using a Windoze box...

I vote with the others: cygwin, and install openssh in that.

You have the added benefit of having a bash command line (or zsh or whatever) to use as you like.

But for your question, cygwin plus openssh is an excellent solution. Try it.

SmartFTP- has tabbed ssh terminals, dual-pane local/sftp, bookmarks.

SecureCRT is very good.

Plenty

Poderosa, Terraterm

among others