Alan Formy-Duval

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Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent
United States

Alan has 20 years of IT experience, mostly in the Government and Financial sectors. He started as a Value Added Reseller before moving into Systems Engineering. Alan's background is in high-availability clustered apps. He wrote the 'Users and Groups' and 'Apache and the Web Stack' chapters in the Oracle Press/McGraw Hill 'Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration' book. He earned his Master of Science in Information Systems from George Mason University. Alan is a long-time proponent of Open Source Software.

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Rob, I think to a large extent, it comes down to personal preference. Putty offers a fuller set of features, while tio is very focused. It is a quick install and is only ~36kb in size. But, I think it is a user choice.

Yes, as Seth confirmed. You will need to enable the EPEL repo for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. However, it is available in the standard repos on distributions such as Fedora (dnf install tio) and Ubuntu (apt install tio).