Based on our record, Royal TS should be more popular than MinGW. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Royal TS for general remote desktop use, not VMs specifically. Indefinite trial ("Shareware mode") is fine if you have <10 connections: https://royalapps.com/ts/win/features. Source: about 2 years ago
A nice alternative for MobaXterm is Royal TS, especially for maintaining a list of 100’s of servers and simultaneously executing commands on a subset or all of them: https://royalapps.com/ts/win/features. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
Is osdn's mingw it a new project ? It's surprising how it provides gcc 4.8.2 and gcc 9.2.0. I guess the 4.8.2 is the last one provided by mingw.org, and 9.2.0 is the first of osdn's project? Is it maintained by the same developers? Source: about 3 years ago
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MSYS2 - A Cygwin-derived software distro for Windows using Arch Linux's Pacman
MobaXterm - Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more
Cygwin - Cygwin is a set of tools that provide Linux and POSIX functionality to Windows.
mRemoteNG - mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote, an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.
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