Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Terminals

Terminals for Desktop Operating Systems

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    empty

    Run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions

    empty - run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions to dialogue with interactive programs. Replace TCL/Expect with a simple tool and use your favorite shell (sh, bash, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, etc)
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    Downloads: 384 This Week
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    The Moluccas

    Portable Build Environment and OSS Distro for Windows

    A pre-configured MinGW focused on ease of use, integration, workflow and completeness. It's also portable and isolated OSS distro.
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    Downloads: 183 This Week
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    tmux

    tmux

    tmux is a terminal multiplexer

    tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached. This release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS X and Solaris. tmux depends on libevent 2.x, and on ncurses. To build tmux, a C compiler (for example gcc or clang), make, pkg-config and a suitable yacc (yacc or bison) are needed. Some platforms provide binary packages for tmux.
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient are cross-platform C libraries that allow you to easily implement VNC server or client functionality in your program.
    Downloads: 52 This Week
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    TinTin++ Mud Client

    TinTin++ Mud Client

    A MUD client for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows

    TinTin++ is a console mud client for any type of text mud or bbs. The mud client's main assets are an easy to learn scripting language, triggers, automapping, and a split screen interface to separate mud output from client input. Installation instructions for Android, iOS, and several other operating systems are available on the website. https://tintin.mudhalla.net
    Downloads: 37 This Week
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    dtach is a program that emulates the detach feature of screen. It is designed to be transparent and un-intrusive; it avoids interpreting the input and output between attached terminals and the program under its control.
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    Downloads: 107 This Week
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    mlterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator , which supports various character sets and encodings in the world.
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    Downloads: 51 This Week
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    Cluster SSH - Cluster Admin Via SSH

    Cluster administration tool

    ClusterSSH controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands to be interactively run on multiple servers over an ssh connection.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    basE91 is an advanced method for encoding binary data as ASCII characters. It is similar to UUencode or base64, but is more efficient. The overhead produced by basE91 depends on the input data. It amounts at most to 23% and can range down to 14%.
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    Downloads: 60 This Week
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    Mrxvt is a multi-tabbed X terminal emulator based on rxvt. It is portable, lightweight and fast. It supports psuedo-transparency, background image (JPEG/PNG/XPM), tinting, NeXT/Rxvt/Xterm/SGI style scrollbar, multi-languages (CJK), XIM, freetype font...
    Downloads: 17 This Week
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    Twin - Textmode WINdow environment

    Twin is a "retro" program for embedded or remote systems

    Twin is a text-mode window environment. It supports mouse and multiple windows, has a built-in terminal emulator and window manager, and can serve as display for client applications. Its retro look-and-feel comes with very modern features: it is best described as a VNC-like server, that can use a variety of displays - all with mouse support: from a plain text terminal, to a Linux console, to a full kde, gnome or X11 desktop. Source code hosted at https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
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    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86, AMD64, Itanium, Hammer, Hyperstone and ARM (noMMU) platforms.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Lan Core is a free & open source software that lets you to build a thin client network on a Windows operating system. It was originally designed to work in a server or workstation with Windows XP Professional using the native remote desktop protocol.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    SSHDOS is a DOS port of SSH, SCP, SFTP and Telnet clients. Needs a packet driver (or a PPP driver for dialup connection) only. There are two separate packages for SSH1 and for SSH2.
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    KBtin is a MUD/MUSH/MOO/telnet client, a heavily extended clone of tintin++. It is not limited to games however, as it can be used to run any line-based program. It uses full screen text mode, with portability preferred over graphical looks.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    A portable library to access braille displays.
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    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    BASIC interpreter for the 16bit PIC microcontroller 24FJ64GA002. The interpreter runs on the chip only, no compiler/tokenizer is needed. Communication with PC is done by USB-to-serial converter cable.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    cygSimple

    Simplistic Cygwin

    I find the current setup process for Cygwin a bit cumbersome and over burdened. It doesn't have to be and you can have a small Cygwin footprint. This project will help provide you with instruction and zip files for a basic setup.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    TFFC i mean Terminal(or Trivial) Functions for Curses. I need some functions for text mode in DJGPP under pdcurses(it works also with ncurses) for input text,menu, scrolling text on the screen and others. I don't like(it very difficult to write some pr
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    C-Cmd
    Its Command prompt that runs trought C programming. By Joe DF
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Protocol tool

    Hexadecimal strings test tool

    This is a software/hardware development tool that allows the user to send strings on an interface (parallel,serial, network or other), specified in hexadecimal or strings or a combination of these. The strings can be retrieved/stored from/to a file.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    A terminal program for the GGI graphics system
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    gives remote control of a PC running MS-DOS (which e.g. does not have a monitor display attached to it). The screen image (currently text mode only) is taken from the graphics card and transferred to other computer via serial link and displayed there
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    LinM is a clone of Mdir, the popular file manager(MC style) in the MS-DOS age. LinM inherits the keyboard shorcuts and the screen layout from Mdir to maximize user-friendliness. ( ftp, sftp, samba supported. ) http://kldp.net/projects/mls
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    HP700/92 terminal emulation like xterm.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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