Recent developments on NoMachine's OpenSSH Win32 port

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Some of you may remember that a few years back NoMachine released to the community an initial Windows port of openssh-portable, with successive updates providing further improvements later on.

A port of OpenSSH for Windows would finally permit Secure Shell interoperability between Windows and Linux i.e., allow Linux users to connect to and manage Windows and similarly, Windows users connect to and manage Linux, both via SSH. A functionality that has often been requested by many technical users and developers alike, NoMachine took on the challenge.

Fast forward a few years, Microsoft’s PowerShell team announced that it had committed to supporting and contributing to the OpenSSH project in order to provide Win32 support for SSH. We were approached to collaborate with them on our initial port, their aim being not just to provide the necessary tight integration with Windows, but to have the code finally committed upstream into the official OpenSSH project. Both teams shared the vision of a single Win32 OpenSSH code base in openssh-portable.

Development of NoMachine’s OpenSSH port has since been ongoing and we are excited to announce that PowerShell developers have now released a developer preview to the public.

For more details head on over to Steve Lee’s blog post.

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