Right now you should take a minute to support the OpenBSD Project.

Chances are, if you’re viewing my website (geek!), you’ve used their work. They’ve developed OpenSSH. This software is included with operating systems from Apple Mac OS X to Redhat Enterprise Linux to Sun Solaris (pretty much all of them but Windows) as well as HP, Cisco and other hardware vendors’ devices. These operating system and hardware companies have been including OpenSSH with their products for years, which saved them the time to develop it on their own.

And that’s just OpenSSH. I’m not even going to get into why OpenBSD deserves your support… that should be self evident through the rest of the content on my site.

Free software is a double edged sword…
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I no longer host any documentation for setting up Cygwin or SSH on Windows.

I didn’t have the time or the need to keep the documentation up to date.

Additionally, too many people were reading my site and then, instead of using the ssh list I set up, people were asking questions about my documentation on the Cygwin mailing lists. As you can imagine, this didn’t make the Cygwin maintainers happy.

Besides, when I originally set up this site, SSH+Windows documentation was sparse at best. So, I journaled my experiences. Now, with Cygwin (and it’s been this way for years), it just works. Install it and go.

If you have any questions about ssh, join and use my ssh mailing list.

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.