Category: Internet - SSH Clients (3), Internet - Telnet Clients (2)
Synopsis: KiTTY is a fork from 0.60 version of PuTTY, a free SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for 32-bit Windows systems. In addition to portability, it supports many new features, including session filters, automatic login, session icon, transparency, roll-up etc.
Writes settings to: Application folder
How to extract: Download the single EXE file to a folder of your choice. Create a file called kitty.ini in the same folder with the following lines:
[KiTTY]
savemode=file
sav=kitty.sav
Launch kitty.exe.
Stealth: Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Kitty Portable update
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:53 am
by TP109
version: 0.63.1.4
Couldn't seem to download the portable version from its home page, went here instead: http://www.fosshub.com/KiTTY.html
TP109 wrote:Those instructions go back awhile. Noted.
It's whatever. We used to do everything with separate update posts before we started associating a forum thread to an entry so it's no biggie.
I'll go ahead and merge.
Re: KiTTY - SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:45 pm
by smaragdus
Is it possible at all to download components from the official download page?. All downloads open "Donation" page. This is absolutely abominable. I am asking because version 0.67.1.2 is not yet available at Google Drive.
(you might need to disable any addons that block referrers (header) - the direct download link seems to be http://www.fosshub.com/KiTTY.html/kitty_portable.exe but I think it might not work when you're not visiting the page above first)
Re: KiTTY - SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 3:36 am
by Midas
You can get a fairly recent version (currently, v0.67.1.1) from Chocolatey package page at https://chocolatey.org/packages/kitty/. If you click download on the left sidebar bottom, you'll get a NUPKG that is in fact a mere ZIP file -- just rename and extract.
Re: KiTTY - SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 6:33 am
by smaragdus
@lintalist
Yes, I can download from FossHub but not all KiTTY files are hosted there.
I keep a "plain" browser without any add-ons installed and with no integration to download managers for sites like KiTTY official one- K-Meleon, but even it was unable to download from KiTTY web-site. For me such aggressive donation prompts show a very bad taste and I never donate to such developers. Perhaps KiTTY developer has decided to stop using Google Drive for hosting because there he cannot push donation pop-ups.
@Midas
Thanks but I already have the version you mentioned. I was simply infuriated by KiTTY official download page.
Re: KiTTY - SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 8:04 pm
by webfork
So we're listing this program as open source (we're not the only ones) but I can't for the life of me figure out what the license is or where to download the source. The original (putty) was BSD but that's a license that is easy to take in a closed-source direction. I even downloaded the documentation and I can't find anything there either.
Ideas welcome. Otherwise I'm tempted to change the license to "Freeware"
Re: KiTTY - SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 9:01 pm
by SYSTEM
webfork wrote:So we're listing this program as open source (we're not the only ones) but I can't for the life of me figure out what the license is or where to download the source. The original (putty) was BSD but that's a license that is easy to take in a closed-source direction. I even downloaded the documentation and I can't find anything there either.
Ideas welcome. Otherwise I'm tempted to change the license to "Freeware"
KiTTY uses a permissive license. You can view it by clicking About -> Licence. I also copied it into the spoiler tag below.
Spoiler!
PuTTY is copyright 1997-2016 Simon Tatham.
Portions copyright Robert de Bath, Joris van Rantwijk, Delian Delchev, Andreas Schultz, Jeroen Massar, Wez Furlong, Nicolas Barry, Justin Bradford, Ben Harris, Malcolm Smith, Ahmad Khalifa, Markus Kuhn, Colin Watson, Christopher Staite, and CORE SDI S.A.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.