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On 9/7/25 5:04 AM, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. wrote:
I'm considering leaving Windows entirely and moving toward a life of Linux. The
well know commercial terminal emulator software I'm using does not have a Linux
version. Doing a quick search it seems that there are not that many commercial
choices.
Can anyone with experience - both good and bad - with such software, lead me in
the right direction? While your at at, any recommendation on which flavor of
Linux I should be looking at?
Short answer: X3270
As John, ITschak, Radoslaw, Rupert, and others have reported, X3270 is
standard with most Linux distributions.
Part of my rationale for X3270 is that it runs on *any* Unix or
Unix-like system with X windows, including this FreeBSD system in front
of me and CYGWIN when I'm forced to use Windoze. So it's not just for
Linux.
Speaking of "not just Linux", consider using a Mac. (I don't, but I do
have one.) Just for a complete picture.
As for Linux, SUSE was my preferred distro until they started moving
content from/etc to "unexpected locations". And most of the more popular
distros have fallen to the SystemD pandemic. There *is* a variant of
Debian which is "SystemD free", and then there are things like FreeBSD.
(Mac is "SystemD free" but has its own detachments from the Unix norm.)
I was pleased to read Willy's report that Tom Brennan's emulator runs on
WINE. It is wildly popular on Windows.
I grew up with 7171 protocol convertors, so developed muscle memory that
the <Enter> key is the same whether 3270 or byte-at-a-time-ASCII.
But you CAN re-map keys with X3270 if you just gotta.
TIA.
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