OSX Tips and Trick : Telnet

Told myself I would eventually try out this system and voila. I’m in the bandwagon of MacOS X: High Sierra. The transition between operating system is easy for me without much hiccup except the UNIX file system and the number of application available. I must say as compared to Windows, OSX is built around the user interface and user experience. Fluidity is one thing that was lacking in Windows and they are trying to catch up in Windows 10, it’s definitely a long gap since Windows Longhorn. Now I have Windows 10 as my workhorse and Mac for my content creation and development. One reason for my transition was also about Citrix VDI or virtual desktop which sounds super cool haha. Let’s straight to the point. I’ve seen people asking or complaining about the removal of telnet from MacOS in High Sierra. Removal of telnet was chaos for system administrator but no worries because there’s an alternative for it. NetCat, I bet a lot of people never use it and it was really good. Yes, start using nc and stop complaining the removal of telnet. The removal was likely due to the transition of OS to 64-it based and I don’t think they will put it back even if there’s petition or complaints since nc does everything telnet do and better in all sort of way.