Until today, my installation of Ubuntu was not working well, and due to time constraints I was forced to fall back on my Windows Vista installation. I should have known that the two hours it would have taken me to fix Ubuntu would have been a lot less than the time and patients required to put up with Vista’s crap. To say the least, I am back on Ubuntu now. During my short sabbatical from Ubuntu, I opted to use PuTTY as my ssh client. One of the features I grew fond of was PuTTYs ability to save sessions, so the first thing I did when I booted up Ubuntu was:

sudo apt-get install putty

After aptitude was done installing PuTTY, I gave it a shot. I am not really sure what prompted me to quickly remove it, but perhaps it was its hideous looking interface or the idea of using an xterm emulator in Linux. I was determined to find a piece of software to manage my ssh connections, and after some googling I found SSHMenu. A piece of open source software that managed my ssh connections, integrated with gnome, used the native terminal. Exactly what I was looking for.

You can download it here or if you use Ubuntu you can take advantage of the repositories by following these instructions or just by simply typing

sudo apt-get install sshmenu-gnome

putty ssh sshmenu