TightVNC is a tightened version of VNC. It provides remote control access to a computer running VNC Server. It works on Windows, Linux and OpenBSD.

When the project first started, it had a lot of features that “RealVNC” did not. I understand that “RealVNC” incorporates a lot of the features that TightVNC has, but I still like to use TightVNC.

You can also tunnel VNC traffic through SSH.

Vim is Vi Improved. Vi is a great, fast text editor mainly for Unix-like operating systems.

But, the main reason for putting it here is that they have a native Windows GUI version that adds an “Edit with Vim” context menu so you can right click on a file and it will open in Vi. Notepad just won’t do. :)

Mutt is a console-based (vs. GUI) mail client that runs on OpenBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (with Cygwin).

Mutt is great for checking your mail through an SSH session when you don’t want to fire up a web browser or GUI mail application.

Mutt supports mbox and Maildir format local mail folders. It’ll also connect to IMAP and IMAPS servers.

NCFTP is a robust set of ftp command line tools including ncftpget, ncftpput and ncftpls for single command ftp operations.

NCFTP runs on Windows, OpenBSD, Linux and Mac OS X.

RawWrite for Windows allows writing floppy disk images to floppy disks. It’s great for creating boot floppies for Linux and OpenBSD.