StarNet Demonstrates High-Speed SSH/X Server Integration; PuTTY-based Client Speeds up Secure Connections between Windows and UNIX.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NetWorld+Interop 2003 Las Vegas LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2003 StarNet Communications Corp., a leading publisher of Windows-to-UNIX/Linux connectivity software, will give the first public demonstration of "StarNetSSH," a next-generation SSH (Secure SHell) A security protocol for logging into a remote server. SSH provides an encrypted session for transferring files and executing server programs. Also serving as a secure client/server connection for applications such as database access and e-mail, SSH supports a solution for securely connecting Windows computers with applications running on remote UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Linux servers. The demonstration will take place at Booth #6434 at the 2003 Networld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas (April 29-May 1). In 2000, StarNet became the first X server publisher to offer a SecureShell (SSH) connect option. SSH has since become the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for safely transferring X11-based data between Windows computers and UNIX servers over the Internet. StarNet's latest integration features the new StarNet SSH "connection module" based on PuTTY, a high-speed open-source SSH client. This self-contained connection module runs as a thread of the X-Win32 process, and will function even when PuTTY is not installed. If, however, the user has set up PuTTY configuration files, the new SSH connection module will use them. StarNet's current SSH connection module interfaces with a bundled SSH Client application that has to be installed separately. Besides the advantage of a single installation, the PuTTY-based SSH connection module also offers significant higher performance. In the process of developing the StarNetSSH connection module, StarNet engineers made significant improvements to the overall PuTTY source code. These enhancements will be made available for public use and will also be submitted to the PuTTY development team for consideration of permanent integration with the PuTTY source code. Most significant among the improvements is a new ability for PuTTY to perform multiple SSH sessions. StarNet expects to release a new version of X-Win32 containing the StarNetSSH connection module by the end of the second quarter. Download Free Trial Copy StarNet's current version of X-Win32 (5.4.2) can be downloaded from http://www.starnet.com/products/downloads.asp. A free 2-month trial license is available from within the program. StarNet also offers complementary use of a Sun Solaris and a Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. server as part of its Online Tutorial service, which can be found at http://www.starnet.com/support/#tutorial. Fast, Friendly and Affordable X-Win32 provides intuitive point-and-click access from Windows-based desktops to Linux and UNIX servers, including Sun Solaris, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System , Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera, Mandrake mandrake, plant of the family Solanaceae (nightshade family), the source of a narcotic much used during the Middle Ages as a pain-killer and perhaps the subject of more superstition than any other plant. and others. X-Win32 offers both SSH, RSH, REXEC REXEC Remote Execution REXEC Remote Execution Command and XDMCP XDMCP X (window) Display Manager Control Protocol XDMCP Xdm Control Protocol connections between Windows desktop computers and UNIX/Linux host systems. X-Win32 has been rated the "Best PC X Server" in an independent performance comparison of nine PC X server products published in Network Computing Magazine (for details, please review http://www.starnet.com/company/numberone.htm). X-Win32 lists at US$245.00. X-Win32 licenses include technical support for the life of the license and free upgrade coverage for new releases issued within a year from the date of purchase. About StarNet Communications (www.StarNet.com and www.x-solutions.com) Located in Silicon Valley, StarNet develops and markets PC X server software for networked PCs in multi-platform corporate, educational and government organizations. StarNet's line of X-Win32 PC X server products offer cost-effective X terminal emulation on networked Windows-based PCs and workstations. StarNet also offers other platform interoperability solutions from its X-Solutions web site. StarNet was founded in 1989 and has become one of the first companies to build its marketing and sales operations around the Internet. |
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