Best Terminal Emulator Software with Open-source Software Capabilities
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PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
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- 47% Enterprise
- 29% Mid-Market
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Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS or Msys2, and derived projects, and for WSL.
- 44% Small-Business
- 31% Enterprise
2,594,023 Twitter followers
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Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionalit
- 50% Small-Business
- 33% Mid-Market
2,594,023 Twitter followers
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iTerm2 has a lot of features. Every conceivable desire a terminal user might have has been foreseen and solved.
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- 40% Mid-Market
- 30% Small-Business
7 Twitter followers
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ConEmu-Maximus5 is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.
- 62% Mid-Market
- 31% Enterprise
2,594,023 Twitter followers
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Upterm (formerly Black Screen) is an IDE in the world of terminals. Strictly speaking, it's both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell based on Electron.
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- 50% Small-Business
- 42% Mid-Market
2,594,023 Twitter followers
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Terminal is a terminal emulator application for accessing a UNIX shell environment which can be used to run programs available on your system.
- 64% Small-Business
- 21% Mid-Market
199,001 Twitter followers
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Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.
- 46% Mid-Market
- 38% Small-Business
119,752 Twitter followers
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TeraTerm is an open-source, free, software implemented, terminal emulator. It emulates different types of computer terminals, from DEC VT100 to DEC VT382.
- 33% Mid-Market
- 33% Small-Business
38 Twitter followers
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NetSarang Computer, Inc. develops performance driven network connectivity software for the global market.
- 58% Small-Business
- 25% Enterprise
495 Twitter followers
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Produce a useful tool for arranging terminals. It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc. in that the main focus is arranging terminals in grids (tabs is the most common de
- 60% Mid-Market
- 20% Enterprise
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The "konsole-devel" mailing-list is targeted at developers and interested users. The bug report and reviewboard emails for Konsole are also posted automatically to the list.
- 67% Enterprise
- 33% Small-Business
119,752 Twitter followers
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Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app that works directly with no rooting or setup required. A minimal base system is installed automatically - additional packages are avail
- 100% Small-Business
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Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load and buttery smooth scrolling. Uses threaded rendering to minimize input latency.
- 100% Mid-Market
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Minicom is a serial communication program
- 50% Small-Business
- 50% Mid-Market
279,991 Twitter followers
