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What is iTerm2? macOS Terminal Replacement. A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

What is Putty? A free SSH and Telnet client. It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

iTerm2 and Putty can be primarily classified as "Terminal Emulators" tools.

iTerm2 is an open source tool with 8.97K GitHub stars and 905 GitHub forks. Here's a link to iTerm2's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, iTerm2 has a broader approval, being mentioned in 19 company stacks & 71 developers stacks; compared to Putty, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.

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What is iTerm2?

A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

What is Putty?

It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

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What are some alternatives to iTerm2 and Putty?

Hyper

Hyper.sh is a secure container hosting service. What makes it different from AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that you don't start servers, but start docker images directly from Docker Hub or other registries.

Hyper Terminal

The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards. Focus will be primarily around speed and stability.

tmux

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.

Termius

The #1 cross-platform terminal with built-in ssh client which works as your own portable server management system in any situation.

Windows Terminal

A new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community.

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