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It does serial connections, also SSH and Telnet, rsh. Quite like Putty. Other serial alternatives for the Mac would be zTerm and iTerm. I use iTerm on a Mac. I know I never thought I'd be using a Mac exclusively but if you ever have to manage a linux box from your workstation, it just makes sense to have a Mac on your desk or bench. Using brew and ssh-copy-id and a config file in your.ssh folder on top of iTerm with split panes, a mac workstation for ssh is the bomb.
Official IRC Channel - #reddit-sysadmin on Official Discord -. The SFTP with 'Follow command prompt' option is fucking brilliant. I can tool around, doing what I need to do.
Then if I need some driver or config file I can literally download it on my host desktop (windows) and just drag and drop it into the terminal. Or, if I need to edit a config file I can simply double click it, as if it were a folder on my windows machine. It'll open in Notepad and bam, I'd making edits with a real text editor and not something awful like vi In fact, I don't like the linux desktop GUI stuff. I never thought it worked well. But I do like the command prompt, it is just limited and slow.
So my actual preferable way of using Linux is ironically from mobaXterm from a Windows desktop. Lol.