On 2013-11-07, Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com wrote:
The built-in SSH client is OpenSSH from the Terminal. I find OS X's Terminal much more functional and usable than Gnome Terminal on CentOS. For an even better user experience, I recommend SecureCRT, a commercial GUI SSH client for Windows, OS X, and Linux. I *live* in SecureCRT 5 days a week. It is rock solid, and much more capable than Terminal + OpenSSH.
If you hate Terminal, but are too cheap to spring for SecureCRT, you can try iTerm 2. It has support for profiles, and probably a bunch of other stuff Terminal doesn't that I can't think of at the moment.
I've used OS X as a host for a CentOS VM, but it's usually for a fairly limited task (e.g., I need to access an Avocent KVM remotely, but perhaps all of my local servers are down, and these devices for some reason support linux but not OS X). I spend much more of my time accessing my CentOS machines over XQuartz or NX.
--keith