PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#2Some other projects who depend on PuTTY like FileZilla have new builds too: https://filezilla-project.org/
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#3It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#4The security holes are not critical but of course you should upgrade anyways.
3 of the holes have the following notice: We are currently unaware of any way in which this can lead to remote code execution.
4th hole is that putty does not cleanup sensitive memory when it could.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#5It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
Because most of the world's work is still done on Windows.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#6Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#7It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
just out of curiosity: what are you using?
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#8It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
Because Linux is good only when used from the command line, and Mac OS doesn't run on commodity hardware. That leaves only Windows as a viable option for most people.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#9It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
I know this is a troll statement, but I feel Windows does a lot of things well.
* For large organizations, domain controls make managing a large number of desktops much easier.
* I feel MS Office on windows is a better product than the mac version (if you do a lot of document work).
* Gaming. Windows is still dominant for desktop games.
* Windows isn't the walled garden that Mac is going towards.
* Backwards compatibility. Software written 10+ years ago for Windows still has a good chance of working on Windows 8.
* Familiar. People are used to it. I'm not going to force my parents to learn a Mac and all the weird behaviors that go with it.
* Isn't tied to hardware only made by Microsoft (which makes hardware a commodity).
I'm sure there are a number of other points I'm missing, but it's the ones that I like. But there are a number of things I really dislike about it:
* It's not unix based. So the filesystem layout differs, I can't share perl/bash scripts as easily across them. / vs \ for filesystem paths. EOL characters in ascii files.
* It took too long to get a good command line. Powershell is nice, but just too different than what I'm used to with Bash that I get on OSX and Linux.
* Many developer tools today are becoming OSX focused. Windows has a lot of great software still, but many of the smaller nitch tools that I discover are OSX or Linux focused.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#10Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
mRemoteNG gave me my sanity back: http://www.mremoteng.org/