[gentoo-user] Re: udev-140

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2009-03-16, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote:
>> > I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all
>> > this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was
>> > dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was
>> > panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6
>> > months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to
>> > rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks
>> > worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia
>> > Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone)  :-)
>>
>> What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems
>> to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port
>> devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations.
>
> Putty itself isn't too bad if you look at it as a Windows app.
> It can never be anything other than a Windows app

That's odd -- the Linux version works fine for me.

   http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/putty-0.60.tar.gz

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