Programs released under this license can be used at no cost for both personal and commercial purposes. Open Source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify or enhance. Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use). general file transfer sessions much like FTP) This download includes the following tools: So you can work on the Unix machine as if you were sitting at its console, while actually sitting somewhere else. Then, anything you type into that window is sent straight to the Unix machine, and everything the Unix machine sends back is displayed in the window.

In really simple terms: you run PuTTY on a Mac machine and tell it to connect to (for example) a Unix machine. Both alternatives will also install the command-line of the adaptations of PuTTYgen.

There are multiple ways to install PuTTY, which are Homebrew or MacPorts.

However, to run PuTTYgen for Mac, the first one must have to install PuTTY.