7-Zip and Filezilla - Open Source alternatives
7-Zip is a great open source alternative to WinZip. Now your conscience doesn't have to bother you every time you click the "Evaluage" button when WinZip opens.
Filezilla is a great open source FTP client - a bit rough, but does everything I want.
I generally download and install Cygwin for (among many other things) the SSH client. I heard about PuTTY only yesterday, so I haven't tried it yet. It looks like a great lightweight and free SSH client.
Except for PuTTY I use the other apps regularly.
See, I do like open sores... er, I mean source.
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Steve! If only I'd known that you hadn't heard about PuTTY! I heard about it myself a year or two ago on /. after I'd suffered through using the SSH-ified version of Tera Term Pro. Now I use it exclusively and I haven't looked back. Of course, my need for it has suddenly dropped since I've taken the plunge and started using a Windows email client (Thunderbird rocks so far) but nothing beats PuTTY when you're on the road. Even at library computers set up to prevent downloading or installing software, you can usually hit google, type 'putty', go to the download page and select "open from current location" and voila! Instant SSH access to my shell accounts from anywhere. Ok, sure, using any terminal program on a strange computer is a little cavalier, but putty makes it as low-risk as possible.
Posted by: Christopher | August 15, 2003 12:13 PM