![]() ![]() It installs itself much like any application, and upon installation seems to create a default Windows 2000 ‘bottle’. While not a perfect tool, yet, it does let me do something I have craved since making the switch: I can run SecureCRT on OS X and get my tabbed sessions back! Not only that, but I can copy over my session files from my WinBlows desktop and be pretty much set up in minutes.ĬodeWeavers CrossOver Mac is an Intel-based Mac only product so this option wasn’t available to my PPC laptop or desktop. Yes, I have Parallels, but I am I finding that little things like USB flash drives don’t work with it and that annoys me. Yes, it can boot to Windows, but that is only useful to me in extreme circumstances. Last week I purchased one of the new Core 2 Duo 17″ MacBook Pro laptops, and a new world of possibilities has been opened up to me. For all my google’ng I still haven’t found a decent tabbed ssh client for OS X. Still, without tabbed sessions, my digital workspace can get pretty cluttered. As a SysAdmin, this made it a lot easier to quickly connect to the dozens of servers I access on a daily basis. JellyfiSSH is a ssh configuration manager that allows you to store connection details and quickly access them via the Dock or the JellyfiSSH menu. SecureCRT had recently added tabbed sessions, to which I quickly became addicted and the loss of that was painful. Apple’s Terminal application is OK, in the way that the Cygwin ssh client is on Windows: It works, but it isn’t something I recommend. One of the hardest things I had to deal with when I switched to an Apple OS X PowerPC based laptop last year was losing the functionality of SecureCRT. I’ve been using SecureCRT since version 2.2 (beta 4), and on the Windows platform it has consistently been the best terminal emulator and ssh client I have ever used. Update: Apparently VanDyke is embarking on a project to port SecureCRT to OS X! I have some more information in this post:
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