Fri, 07 May 2010

Configuring Windows 7 for Remote Access with Cygwin sshd
posted by Chip Witt

As someone that was openly critical of Windows Vista during its short reign as the flagship Microsoft product, mostly due to my experiences bailing out friends and clients that had gone down the unhappy upgrade path from XP Pro, I feel it is important to give praise where it is due. I have been using Windows 7 on a Sony VAIO P-series for about four months now, and I must admit that it doesn't suck. In fact, I've enjoyed it enough that, when it came time to invest in a new workstation class machine for some of our development work here at Witt'z End Technologies, Windows 7 Professional was the obvious choice of operating system. Those that know me well, know that is about as close to an endorsement as I will ever get, so do not take it lightly.

Now, to all my Linux and Open Source friends that are staring at their screens in shock and horror, I am not abandoning you. We just needed a machine on which to run our Adobe Suite, along with some other necessary tools that required Windows as the primary OS. A necessary Evil, if you will, that in no way lessons my advocacy for all Good things Open Source. In fact, I want to now shift specifically to talking about something Linux provides for systems administrators that Windows still does not, and highlight the Open Source tool, Cygwin, as part of the solution.

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