Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Terminals

Terminals for Desktop Operating Systems

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    empty

    Run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions

    empty - run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions to dialogue with interactive programs. Replace TCL/Expect with a simple tool and use your favorite shell (sh, bash, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, etc)
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    Downloads: 366 This Week
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    tmux

    tmux

    tmux is a terminal multiplexer

    tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached. This release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS X and Solaris. tmux depends on libevent 2.x, and on ncurses. To build tmux, a C compiler (for example gcc or clang), make, pkg-config and a suitable yacc (yacc or bison) are needed. Some platforms provide binary packages for tmux.
    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    The Moluccas

    Portable Build Environment and OSS Distro for Windows

    A pre-configured MinGW focused on ease of use, integration, workflow and completeness. It's also portable and isolated OSS distro.
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    Downloads: 171 This Week
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    LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient are cross-platform C libraries that allow you to easily implement VNC server or client functionality in your program.
    Downloads: 47 This Week
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    TinTin++ Mud Client

    TinTin++ Mud Client

    A MUD client for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows

    TinTin++ is a console mud client for any type of text mud or bbs. The mud client's main assets are an easy to learn scripting language, triggers, automapping, and a split screen interface to separate mud output from client input. Installation instructions for Android, iOS, and several other operating systems are available on the website. https://tintin.mudhalla.net
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    dtach is a program that emulates the detach feature of screen. It is designed to be transparent and un-intrusive; it avoids interpreting the input and output between attached terminals and the program under its control.
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    Downloads: 33 This Week
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    mlterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator , which supports various character sets and encodings in the world.
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    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    Mrxvt is a multi-tabbed X terminal emulator based on rxvt. It is portable, lightweight and fast. It supports psuedo-transparency, background image (JPEG/PNG/XPM), tinting, NeXT/Rxvt/Xterm/SGI style scrollbar, multi-languages (CJK), XIM, freetype font...
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    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    basE91 is an advanced method for encoding binary data as ASCII characters. It is similar to UUencode or base64, but is more efficient. The overhead produced by basE91 depends on the input data. It amounts at most to 23% and can range down to 14%.
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    Downloads: 30 This Week
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  • 10

    Cluster SSH - Cluster Admin Via SSH

    Cluster administration tool

    ClusterSSH controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands to be interactively run on multiple servers over an ssh connection.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    SSHDOS is a DOS port of SSH, SCP, SFTP and Telnet clients. Needs a packet driver (or a PPP driver for dialup connection) only. There are two separate packages for SSH1 and for SSH2.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    ICMP Shell (ISH) is a telnet-like protocol. It allows users to connect to a remote host and to open a shell using only ICMP to send and receive data. ICMP Shell was written in C for the UNIX environment.
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    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    A portable library to access braille displays.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Ampare Windows 10 Full Shutdown

    Ampare Windows 10 Full Shutdown

    Full Shutdown For Your Windows 8 and Windows 10 PC

    Change From Visual Basic to Bat file to fix False Positive Detection Error This Software will use the old shutdown method of Windows that allow you to completely shutdown your pc . No hibernation or Fast Startup. Allow you to recovery file , Installing Dual Boot Linux and even more with just a click of this simple tools Donate us : http://www.juthawong.com/donate
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    FuTTY

    FuTTY

    FireEgl's PuTTY -- FuTTY!

    FuTTY is a fork of PuTTY and PuTTYTray.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Twin - Textmode WINdow environment

    Twin is a "retro" program for embedded or remote systems

    Twin is a text-mode window environment. It supports mouse and multiple windows, has a built-in terminal emulator and window manager, and can serve as display for client applications. Its retro look-and-feel comes with very modern features: it is best described as a VNC-like server, that can use a variety of displays - all with mouse support: from a plain text terminal, to a Linux console, to a full kde, gnome or X11 desktop. Source code hosted at https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    smartCOMs

    smartCOM is a graphical serial device terminal.

    smartCOM is a graphical serial device terminal, it's an alternative to minicom. It is aimed mainly at hardware developers who need a gui test tools to talk to their custom hardware. The GUI is written using the wxWidgets library, and using the tinyxml to save or load config. http://gnssinfo.com/2012/11/21/wiki-smartcom/
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    FUNterm is a serial port terminal program for Windows. It offers basic serial connection. Because FUNterm is written using basic Win32 calls, with no high-level libraries, it works under Linux using Wine. The serial driver can be used separately.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Lan Core is a free & open source software that lets you to build a thin client network on a Windows operating system. It was originally designed to work in a server or workstation with Windows XP Professional using the native remote desktop protocol.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    gives remote control of a PC running MS-DOS (which e.g. does not have a monitor display attached to it). The screen image (currently text mode only) is taken from the graphics card and transferred to other computer via serial link and displayed there
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Echoc
    It is the same as the basic "ECHO" command, but now.., with COLOR! echo messages in color. http://www.softpedia.com/progClean/Echoc-Clean-207636.html
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Enigma

    Enigma

    Secure Striker Manager

    Copyright (C) 2016 Jonas Penno This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86, AMD64, Itanium, Hammer, Hyperstone and ARM (noMMU) platforms.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Micro-80 aims to simulate a Z80 homebrew computer down to the bare metal: 64K RAM, ADM-3A terminal, parallel port, serial port and...3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive?!
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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  • 25
    BASIC interpreter for the 16bit PIC microcontroller 24FJ64GA002. The interpreter runs on the chip only, no compiler/tokenizer is needed. Communication with PC is done by USB-to-serial converter cable.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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